11) Imports & Exports II

📖 Lecture

This week, we continue describing functions that have to do with so-called input(s)-output(s), or simply put, with importing and exporting operations. For example:

• 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:

• Use the sink() function to export output to external files
• Provide an example for how to export an image with png() or jpeg() or pdf()
• Describe the mechanics that R uses for reading-in data

📚 Reading

• https://www.gastonsanchez.com/R-coding-basics/6-03-exporting-data.html

🔬 Lab

Work with some basic examples to import and export resources.