Access Data Set Islands and Find Largest and Smallest Masses

• Access the data set Islands from the base package of R. Use suitable R command to find 3 largest masses and 3 smallest masses from the data set.

Solution:-

> x<-sort(islands);
> len=length(x)

> x[1:3]
      Vancouver          Hainan Prince of Wales 
             12              13              13 
> x[len:(len-2)]
         Asia        Africa North America 
        16988         11506          9390 

Sort the data set and stored it in another variable. Find length of dataset and print first 3 and last 3 elements.

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