Hankin, Robin2023-09-052023-09-052023-07-24Hankin, R. K. S. (2023). The free Abelian group in R: the frab package. arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13184. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13184http://hdl.handle.net/10292/16648In this short article I introduce the frab package which provides an alternative interpretation of named vectors in the R programming language; it is available on CRAN. The underlying mathematical object is the free Abelian group.arXiv places no restrictions on whether articles also appear in local institutional repositories. Authors are welcome to download copies of their own articles from arXiv in order to submit to a local repository.4904 Pure Mathematics49 Mathematical SciencespreprintOpenAccess10.48550/arXiv.2307.13184