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This has some examples of reading data.
This includes a chapter on reading data from files.
This contains another discussion of reading data.
Circle 8.3 starts with a number of things that can go wrong when using read.table.
As the title says this is a manual dedicated to reading data into and out of R.
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jun 25, 26
Several packages on CRAN provide (or relate to) interfaces between databases and R. Here is a summary, mostly in the words of the package descriptions. Remember that package names are [...]
jun 25, 26
Chapter 32 of Tao Te Programming advises you to make bricks instead of monoliths. Here is an example. The example is written with the syntax of R and is a [...]
jun 25, 26
There is a mechanism that allows variability in the arguments given to R functions. Technically it is ellipsis, but more commonly called ”…”, dots, dot-dot-dot or three-dots. Basics The three-dots [...]