Question

A single element of a character vector is referred as ________

(a) Character string

(b) String

(c) Data strings

(d) Raw data

I had been asked this question in an online interview.

The question is from Basics topic in section History, Overview and Getting Started of R Programming

Answer 1

The correct answer is (a) Character string

For explanation: Single element of a character vector is often referred to as a character string. Dates are represented by the Date class and can be coerced from a character string using the as.Date() function. This is a common way to end up with a Date object in R.