Reading a Tab-Delimited(txt) File in R Programming Language

Method 1: Using read.delim() Function

The function has two parameters: 

• file.choose(): It opens a menu to choose a csv file from the desktop.
• header: It is to indicate whether the first row of the dataset is a variable name or not. Apply T/True if the variable name is present else put F/False.

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Method 2: Using read.table() Function

This function specifies how the dataset is separated, in this case we take sep=”\t” as the argument.

Example: 

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We can read external datasets and operate with them in our R environment by importing data into an R script. R offers a number of functions for importing data from various file formats.

In this article, we are going to see how to Import data in R Programming Language.