How to use R/Tutorials/Loading data

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This tutorial demonstrates how to load data in R.

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• This stub content was copied from an import of b:en:R Programming/Tutorial originally to How to use R/Tutorials/Introduction.

[edit] Direct loading

• Given the data file data.txt located at <path>:

1970    45    63
1980    52    59
1990    59    52
2000    63    45

• This data can easily be loaded into R using the following commands:

setwd("<path>")                # change working directory
data <- read.table("data.txt")  # load data

[edit] Loading csv