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Getting class of different data types in R Programming - class() Function

Last Updated : 12 Jun, 2020
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class() function in R Language is used to return the class of data used as the arguments.
Syntax: class(x) Parameters: x: specified data
Example 1: Python3
# R program to illustrate
# class function

# Specifying "Biochemical oxygen demand"
# data set
x <- BOD
x

# Calling class() function
class(x)
Output:
  Time demand
1    1    8.3
2    2   10.3
3    3   19.0
4    4   16.0
5    5   15.6
6    7   19.8
[1] "data.frame"
Example 2: Python3
# R program to illustrate
# class function

# Calling class() function 
# over different types of data 
class(2)
class(2.8)
class("3")
class("gfg")
class(1 + 2i)
Output:
[1] "numeric"
[1] "numeric"
[1] "character"
[1] "character"
[1] "complex"

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