R 1-6 The readr Package for Importing Delimited Data

Describes delimited data ideas and how to read in that data using the readr package from the tidyverse. The differences between a data frame and a tibble are also outlined.

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- read and write R programs
- import well-formatted raw data into R using the tidyverse
- complete common data manipulation tasks in R using the tidyverse
- produce numerical and graphical summaries in R
- improve R programs using loops, vectorized functions, and user-created functions

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It is generally recommended not to use setwd() but rather the here() function from the here() package.