Python for R Users

2Data Input

2.1 Data Input in Pandas

The pandas library offers many flexible formats for reading in data.

The most commonly used is read_csv to read in comma‐separated values (from the Internet URL). That is,

anscombe=pd.read_csv("https://vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/csv/datasets/anscombe.csv")

See the top few lines at http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/decisionstats/3737642751895f470d5c07194302f53e. © GitHub repository.

Or read in csv data from a local file.

See http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/decisionstats/4142e98375445c5e4174

import pandas as pd #importing packages
import os as os

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#pd.describe_option() #describe options for customizing

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#pd.get_option("display.memory_usage")#setting some options

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os.getcwd() #current working directory

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'/home/ajay'

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os.chdir('/home/ajay/Desktop')

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os.getcwd()

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'/home/ajay/Desktop'

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a=os.getcwd()
os.listdir(a)

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['adult.data']

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names2=["age","workclass","fnlwgt","education","education-num","marital-status","occupation","relationship","race","sex","capital-gain","capital-loss","hours-per-week","native-country","income"]

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len(names2)

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15

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adult=pd.read_csv("adult.data",header=None)

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len(adult)

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32562

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adult.columns

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Int64Index([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14], ...