© Jon Westfall 2020
J. WestfallPractical R 4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5946-7_2

2. Feed the Beast: Getting Data into R

Jon Westfall1 
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Division of Counselor Education & Psychology, Division of Student Success Center, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS, USA
 
Before R can be truly useful to you, you’ll probably have to get more data inside of it than just basic arithmetic problems or greetings to the world. This can be tricky in some cases, and daunting in others. R has tremendous support for a wide variety of data types and sources, and we’ll cover the most common types and use cases in this chapter. My goal here is to

  • Explain the different types of data that R can work with and how that data is stored

  • Explain the basics of connecting R ...

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