11) Imports & Exports
📖 Lecture
This week, we’ll talk about concepts and functions that have to do with so-called input(s)-output(s), or simply put, with importing and exporting operations. For example:
- how to import a data table
- how to export a data table
- how to export a graphic to an image file
- how to export function outputs to external files
🎯 Objectives
At the end of this week you will be able to:
- Import tables with
read.table()
and derived functions:read.csv()
,read.delim()
, etc - Use the
sink()
function to export output to external files - Provide an example for how to export an image with
png()
orjpeg()
orpdf()
- Describe the mechanics that R uses for reading-in data
📚 Reading
None
🔬 Lab
Work with some basic examples to import and export resources.