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What does "$" mean in R programming language

What does the "$" mean in the following line of code?

db$Continent <- NA

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>Solution :

Generally speaking, the $ operator is used to extract or subset a specific part of a data object in R.

In your example, you’re assigning NA to Continent, as @dario pointed out in the comments.

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