Chapter1 1
Chapter1 1
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
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
read.csv("states.csv")
"~/datasets/states.csv"
read.csv(path)
Filip Schouwenaars
Instructor, DataCamp
Tab-delimited file
states.txt
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
Filip Schouwenaars
Instructor, DataCamp
Wrappers
read.table() is the main function
read.csv() = wrapper for 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.csv("states.csv")
Defaults
header = TRUE
sep = "\t"
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
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
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")