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A very simple way to import data from many common file formats is with rio. This package provides a function import() that wraps many commonly used data import functions, thereby providing a standard interface. It works simply by passing a file name or URL to import(): import("example.csv&quot...

There are several R packages to read excel files, each of which using different languages or resources, as summarized in the following table: R packageUsesxlsxJavaXLconnectJavaopenxlsxC++readxlC++RODBCODBCgdataPerl For the packages that use Java or ODBC it is important to know details about your s...

The packages foreign and haven can be used to import and export files from a variety of other statistical packages like Stata, SPSS and SAS and related software. There is a read function for each of the supported data types to import the files. # loading the packages library(foreign) library(have...

Feather is an implementation of Apache Arrow designed to store data frames in a language agnostic manner while maintaining metadata (e.g. date classes), increasing interoperability between Python and R. Reading a feather file will produce a tibble, not a standard data.frame. library(feather) pat...