---
title: base
framework: tabulardata
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: tabulardata/dataframe/base
---

# base

The underlying data frame.

## Declaration

```swift
var base: DataFrame { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion For a DataFrame instance, this property is equivalent to self.

## See Also

### Inspecting a Data Frame

- [shape](tabulardata/dataframe/shape.md)
- [columns](tabulardata/dataframe/columns.md)
- [rows](tabulardata/dataframe/rows-swift.property.md)
- [DataFrame.Rows](tabulardata/dataframe/rows-swift.struct.md)
- [containsColumn(_:_:)](tabulardata/dataframe/containscolumn(_:_:).md)