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Loading data with the tidyverse

Loading data with the tidyverse - R Tutorial

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Loading data with the tidyverse

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In this video, I will introduce how you can load and write data with a few different R Tidyverse packages. First up is the readr package. This package provides a simple and easy way to load data from delimited files in a tabular format, such as comma separated values denoted as CSV, or tab separated values, denoted as TSV files. This package can load in a variety of data types within these tabular formatted data sets. This package also provides detailed problem reports if your loading process does not go as expected. The other main package you will use to read in data is the readxl package. This package also loads in tabular data with a variety of data types, but this one focuses on loading data from Excel files. This package supports both the .XLS legacy format and the newer .XLSX format. It also has no external dependencies, making it easy to install and use. One resource you can use for the readr and readxl packages is the Tidyverse website. You can navigate to either of these URLs…

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