

The main pieces of this function we need to set are ‘file’, ‘header’, and ‘sep’. That should open up a help file through your web browser, or in the lower right ‘Help’ menu if you’re using R Studio. To understand how this function works, let’s open up the R help by typing ?read.table. There’s lots of functions that can be used to import data into R: read.table, read.csv, read.csv2, lim, lim2 (among others).
#Load data in r studio pro#
That’s it! You’re a pro at importing data using R Studio.
#Load data in r studio code#
R Studio also provides the snippet of code it used to import the data, which is great! You can copy that code and paste it into your R script file for future use. Step 3: R Studio automatically opens the ‘rain’ dataset as a table in a new tab. All you have to do is just click ‘Import’. Additionally, the ‘Separator’ has been adjusted to ‘comma’ as we have made a comma delimited text file. The ‘Heading’ radio button has already been moved to ‘yes’ because R Studio has recognized our column headers (month, rain_mm, flow_cms). A few things to notice, ‘Name’ at the top has been set to “rain”, which will become the variable our data is stored as in R. The next dialog box we get shows the values contained within our file, and different importing options. Step 2: Navigate to the ‘rain.txt’ file located on your Desktop and click ‘open’. Step 1: Click the ‘Import Dataset’ button, then click ‘From Local File’ We have two options, importing using the R Studio environment (the easy way), or importing using standard R functions. Okay, great now it’s time to get to work in R importing this data. Step 3: save the file as ‘rain.txt’ on your Desktop Step 2: enter data as I have shown below (no spaces, use only commas) Since this isn’t R code, I’ll just break it down into simple steps that are easy to follow. Thus, we all need to work from the same text file, so we have to build a simple text file together to make this whole process work. The spirit of this blog is that whatever I do here, should also work for someone working from home. If we can’t import data into R, then we can’t do anything. One of the most important features we need to be able to do in R is import existing data, whether it be.
