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Introduction &

read.csv
I N T R O D U C T I O N T O I M P O R T I N G D ATA I N R

Filip Schouwenaars
Instructor, DataCamp
Importing data in R

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Importing data in R

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


5 types

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


5 types

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


5 types

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


5 types

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


5 types

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


5 types

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


5 types

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


Flat files
states.csv

state,capital,pop_mill,area_sqm
South Dakota,Pierre,0.853,77116
New York,Albany,19.746,54555
Oregon,Salem,3.970,98381
Vermont,Montpelier,0.627,9616
Hawaii,Honolulu,1.420,10931

wanted_df

state capital pop_mill area_sqm


1 South Dakota Pierre 0.853 77116
2 New York Albany 19.746 54555
3 Oregon Salem 3.970 98381
4 Vermont Montpelier 0.627 9616
5 Hawaii Honolulu 1.420 10931

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utils - read.csv
Loaded by default when you start R

read.csv("states.csv")

What if file in datasets folder of home directory ( ~ )?

path <- file.path("~", "datasets", "states.csv")


path

"~/datasets/states.csv"

read.csv(path)

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Let's practice!
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read.delim &
read.table
I N T R O D U C T I O N T O I M P O R T I N G D ATA I N R

Filip Schouwenaars
Instructor, DataCamp
Tab-delimited file
states.txt

state capital pop_mill area_sqm


South Dakota Pierre 0.853 77116
New York Albany 19.746 54555
Oregon Salem 3.970 98381
Vermont Montpelier 0.627 9616
Hawaii Honolulu 1.420 10931

read.delim("states.txt")

state capital pop_mill area_sqm


1 South Dakota Pierre 0.853 77116
2 New York Albany 19.746 54555
3 Oregon Salem 3.970 98381
4 Vermont Montpelier 0.627 9616
5 Hawaii Honolulu 1.420 10931

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Exotic file format
states2.txt

state/capital/pop_mill/area_sqm
South Dakota/Pierre/0.853/77116
New York/Albany/19.746/54555
Oregon/Salem/3.970/98381
Vermont/Montpelier/0.627/9616
Hawaii/Honolulu/1.420/10931

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read.table()
Read any tabular file as a data frame
Number of arguments is huge

# Read data with the first row as column headers


read.table("states2.txt",
header = TRUE,
sep = "/")

state capital pop_mill area_sqm


1 South Dakota Pierre 0.853 77116
2 New York Albany 19.746 54555
3 Oregon Salem 3.970 98381
4 Vermont Montpelier 0.627 9616
5 Hawaii Honolulu 1.420 10931

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Let's practice!
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Final Thoughts
I N T R O D U C T I O N T O I M P O R T I N G D ATA I N R

Filip Schouwenaars
Instructor, DataCamp
Wrappers
read.table() is the main function
read.csv() = wrapper for CSV

read.delim() = wrapper for tab-delimited files

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read.csv
states.csv

state,capital,pop_mill,area_sqm
South Dakota,Pierre,0.853,77116
New York,Albany,19.746,54555
Oregon,Salem,3.970,98381
Vermont,Montpelier,0.627,9616
Hawaii,Honolulu,1.420,10931

Defaults
header = TRUE

sep = ","

read.table("states.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ",")

read.csv("states.csv")

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read.delim
states.txt

state capital pop_mill area_sqm


South Dakota Pierre 0.853 77116
New York Albany 19.746 54555
Oregon Salem 3.970 98381
Vermont Montpelier 0.627 9616
Hawaii Honolulu 1.420 10931

Defaults
header = TRUE

sep = "\t"

read.table("states.txt", header = TRUE, sep = "\t")

read.delim("states.txt")

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Documentation
?read.table

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Locale differences
states_aye.csv

state,capital,pop_mill,area_sqm
South Dakota,Pierre,0.853,77116
New York,Albany,19.746,54555
Oregon,Salem,3.970,98381
Vermont,Montpelier,0.627,9616
Hawaii,Honolulu,1.420,10931

states_nay.csv

state;capital;pop_mill;area_sqm
South Dakota;Pierre;0,853;77116
New York;Albany;19,746;54555
Oregon;Salem;3,97;98381
Vermont;Montpelier;0,627;9616
Hawaii;Honolulu;1,42;10931

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Locale differences
read.csv(file, header = TRUE, sep = ",", quote = "\"",
dec = ".", fill = TRUE, comment.char = "", ...)

read.csv2(file, header = TRUE, sep = ";", quote = "\"",


dec = ",", fill = TRUE, comment.char = "", ...)

read.delim(file, header = TRUE, sep = "\t", quote = "\"",


dec = ".", fill = TRUE, comment.char = "", ...)

read.delim2(file, header = TRUE, sep = "\t", quote = "\"",


dec = ",", fill = TRUE, comment.char = "", ...)

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states_nay.csv
read.csv("states_nay.csv")

state.capital.pop_mill.area_sqm
South Dakota;Pierre;0 853;77116
New York;Albany;19 746;54555
Oregon;Salem;3 97;98381
Vermont;Montpelier;0 627;9616
Hawaii;Honolulu;1 42;10931

read.csv2("states_nay.csv")

state capital pop_mill area_sqm


1 South Dakota Pierre 0.853 77116
2 New York Albany 19.746 54555
3 Oregon Salem 3.970 98381
4 Vermont Montpelier 0.627 9616
5 Hawaii Honolulu 1.420 10931

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Let's practice!
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