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Import Data into R: Read CSV, Excel, SPSS, Stata, SAS Files

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Read CSV

One of the most widely data store is the .csv (comma-separated values) file formats. R loads an array of libraries during the start-up, including the utils package. This package is convenient to open csv files combined with the reading.csv() function. Here is the syntax for read.csv

read.csv(file, header = TRUE, sep = ",")

Read Excel files

Excel files are very popular among data analysts. Spreadsheets are easy to work with and flexible. R is equipped with a library readxl to import Excel spreadsheet.

Use this code

require(readxl)

Read sas

For our example, we are going to use the admission dataset from IDRE.

PATH_sas <- 'https://github.com/guru99-edu/R-Programming/blob/master/binary.sas7bdat?raw=true'
df <- read_sas(PATH_sas)
head(df)

Read STATA

For STATA data files you can use read_dta(). We use exactly the same dataset but store in .dta file.

PATH_stata <- 'https://github.com/guru99-edu/R-Programming/blob/master/binary.dta?raw=true'
df <- read_dta(PATH_stata)
head(df)

Read SPSS

We use the read_sav()function to open a SPSS file. The file extension ".sav"

PATH_spss <- 'https://github.com/guru99-edu/R-Programming/blob/master/binary.sav?raw=true'
df <- read_sav(PATH_spss)
head(df)

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