CHAPTER 2
Input and Output
R provides many input and output capabilities. This chapter contains recipes on how to read data into R, as well as how to use several handy input and output functions. Although most R users are more concerned with input, there are times when you need to write to a file. You will find recipes for that in this chapter as well.
Oracle boasts that Java is everywhere, and that is certainly true, as Java is in everything from automobiles to cell phones and computers. R is not everywhere, but it is everywhere you need it to be for data analysis and statistics.
Recipe 2-1. Inputting and Outputting Data
Problem
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