Array exercises

Exercise 1
Create an array (3 dimensional) of 24 elements using the  dim()  function.

Exercise 2
Create an array (3 dimensional) of 24 elements using the  array()  function.

Exercise 3
Assign some dimnames of your choice to the array using the  dimnames()  function.

Exercise 4
Assign some dimnames of your choice to the array using the arguments of the  array()  function.

Exercise 5
Instead of column-major array, make a row-major array (transpose).

Exercise 6
For this exercise, and all that follow, download this file, and read it into R using the  read.csv()  function, e.g.:
temp
Copy the column named  N  into a new variable  arr.

Exercise 7
Set dimensions of this variable and convert it into a 3 * 2 * 4 array. Add dimnames.

Exercise 8
Print the whole array on the screen.

Exercise 9
Print only elements of height 2, assuming the first dimension represents rows, the second columns and the third heigth.

Exercise 10
Print elements of height 1 and columns 3 and 1.

Exercise 11
Print element of height 2, column 4 and row 2.

Exercise 12
Repeat the exercises 9-11, but instead of using numbers to reference row, column and height, use  dimnames.

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