Reading the excel file

library(readxl)
mydiamonds<-read_excel("diamonds.xlsx")

Names of variables

names(mydiamonds)
##  [1] "carat"   "cut"     "color"   "clarity" "depth"   "table"   "price"  
##  [8] "x"       "y"       "z"

Top 6 observations

head(mydiamonds)
## # A tibble: 6 x 10
##   carat cut       color clarity depth table price     x     y     z
##   <dbl> <chr>     <chr> <chr>   <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
## 1 0.23  Ideal     E     SI2      61.5    55   326  3.95  3.98  2.43
## 2 0.21  Premium   E     SI1      59.8    61   326  3.89  3.84  2.31
## 3 0.23  Good      E     VS1      56.9    65   327  4.05  4.07  2.31
## 4 0.290 Premium   I     VS2      62.4    58   334  4.2   4.23  2.63
## 5 0.31  Good      J     SI2      63.3    58   335  4.34  4.35  2.75
## 6 0.24  Very Good J     VVS2     62.8    57   336  3.94  3.96  2.48

Creating a new variable

mydiamonds$pricetable<-mydiamonds$price+mydiamonds$table

head(mydiamonds$pricetable)
## [1] 381 387 392 392 393 393
summary(mydiamonds$pricetable)
##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
##     381    1007    2459    3990    5383   18883