R 4 Quick Syntax Reference: A Pocket Guide to the Language, API's and Library

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M. TollefsonR 4 Quick Syntax Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7924-3_9

9. Importing and Creating Data

Margot Tollefson¹  

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When you are loading data into RStudio or R, you have options. R reads external objects using connection functions. The connections can be to files, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses, pipes, or socket connections and can be an internal part of a function that reads from the connection, an argument to a function that reads from the connection, or a stand-alone function that opens a connection for reading (and, sometimes, writing). Some ...