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## Overview
In this shot, we look at how to obtain the length of a data frame in R.

The **length** of a data frame is the number of columns present in the data frame.

## Obtaining the length of a data frame
The `length()` function obtains the length of a data frame.

## Syntax

## Parameter value
The `length()` function takes a single and mandatory parameter that represents the data frame object whose length we have to determine.

## Return value
The `length()` function returns the length of a given data frame.
## Code example


# creating a data frame
My_Data_Frame <- data.frame (
  Height = c("Tall", "Average", "short"),
  Body_structure = c("Meso", "Endo", "Ecto"),
  Age = c(35, 30, 45)
)

# determine the length of the data frame
length(My_Data_Frame)

## Code explanation
* **Line 2**: We create a data frame variable, `My_Data_Frame`, using the `data.frame()` function. The data frame contains three columns.

* **Line 9**: We use the `length()` function to obtain the length of `My_Data_Frame`.

How to obtain the length of a data frame in R

Use the `length()` function in R to get a data frame's length, which is its column count.