Importing data in R
Data comes in various formats. Most of the data available online can be downloaded in the form of text documents (.txt extension) or as comma-separated values (.csv). We also encounter data in the tab-delimited format, XLS, HTML, JSON, XML, and so on. If you are interested in working with data, either in JSON or XML, refer to the recipe Constructing a bar plot using XML in R in Chapter, Creating Applications in R.
How to do it...
In order to import a CSV file in R, we can use the read.csv() function:
test = read.csv("raw.csv", sep = ",", header = TRUE)Alternatively, read.table() function allows us to import data with different separators and formats. Following are some of the methods used to import data in R:
How it works…
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