Reading data from CSV files
CSV formats are best used to represent sets or sequences of records in which each record has an identical list of fields. This corresponds to a single relation in a relational database, or to data (though not calculations) in a typical spreadsheet.
Getting ready
If you have not already downloaded the files for this chapter, do it now and ensure that the auto-mpg.csv file is in your R working directory.
How to do it...
Reading data from .csv files can be done using the following commands:
- Read the data from
auto-mpg.csv, which includes a header row:> auto <- read.csv("auto-mpg.csv", header=TRUE, sep = ",") - Verify the results:
> names(auto)
How it works...
The read.csv() function creates a data frame from the data in the .csv ...
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