Part 35 File input/output (I/O)

Today’s class is all about reading into R and writing out data files out of R.

Because sometimes you want to work with your own damn data, instead of data about penguins, cars, life expectancy, or the Big Five personality scores of 2800 of your closest friends.

35.1 Resources

35.1.1 References and tutorials

• Jenny Bryan’s notes on file I/O
• Tutorial on importing Excel files
• Tutorial on relative paths and how RStudio treats .R script files and .Rmd files

35.1.2 Package documentation

• readr::read_csv()
• readxl::read_excel()
• googlesheets4::read_sheet()
• haven package for importing SPSS, SAS, Stata files
• rio::import() for importing all manner of formats with one command!
• here::here()