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R Data Import Export.

This manual describes the import and export facilities available either in R its elf or via packages which are available from CRAN or elsewhere. Everything described in this manual is (at least in principle) available on all platforms running R.

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R Data Import Export.

This manual describes the import and export facilities available either in R its elf or via packages which are available from CRAN or elsewhere. Everything described in this manual is (at least in principle) available on all platforms running R.

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1 Introduction Reading data into a statistical system for analysis and exporting the results to some other system

for report writing can be frustrating tasks that can take far more time t han the statistical analysis itself, even though most readers will fin dth elatte rfa rm or eappealing. This manual describes the import and export facilities available either in R its elf or via packages which are available from CRAN or elsewhere. Unless otherwise stated, everything described in this manual is (at least in pri nciple) available on all platforms running R. In general, statistical systems like R are not particularly well suited to manip ulations of large-scale data. Some other systems are better than R at this, and part of the thrust of this manual is to suggest that rather than duplicating functionality in R we can make another system do the work! (For example Therneau & Grambsch (2000) commented th at they preferred to do data manipulation in SAS and then use package survival in S for the analysis.) Database manipulation systems are often very suitable for manipulat ing and extracting data: several packages to interact with DBMSs are discussed here.

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