The fundamental object used for storing tables of data in R is called a data frame. We can think of a data frame as a way of organizing data into a large table with a row for each system measured and ...The fundamental object used for storing tables of data in R is called a data frame. We can think of a data frame as a way of organizing data into a large table with a row for each system measured and a column for each parameter. An interesting and useful feature of R is that all the columns in a data frame do not need to be the same data type. Some columns may consist of numerical data, for instance, while other columns contain textual data.