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Reading Data into R with readr

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In this mini-course, you'll learn several useful features of Hadley Wickham's readr package. First, you'll practice importing and exporting datasets, then learn some more advanced features including functions to help with type conversion.
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  1. 1

    Importing data with readr

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    This chapter covers all the useful readr functions that read data into R.

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    Reading a .csv file
    100 xp
    Reading a .tsv file
    100 xp
    Reading a European .csv
    100 xp
    Read a fixed-width file
    100 xp
    Reading a text file
    100 xp
    Writing .csv and .tsv files
    100 xp
    Writing .rds files
    100 xp
  2. 2

    Parsing data with readr

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    Once you have successfully imported your data, you may need to change the type of one or more columns. This chapter shows you how.

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    Coercing columns to different data types
    100 xp
    Coercing character columns into factors
    100 xp
    Creating Date objects
    100 xp
    Parsing number formats
    100 xp
    Viewing metadata before importing
    100 xp
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