From the course: R Programming in Data Science: High Variety Data
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What is the R foreign package?
From the course: R Programming in Data Science: High Variety Data
What is the R foreign package?
- [Instructor] R uses packages to add functionality to the core language. Some of these packages are contributed by external developers and some are built by the Core R development team. The foreign packages recommended for all distributions of R and adds import and export tools for a variety of file formats. Some of these formats are less known and others are quite popular, such as spss or dbf. Using these import tools is easy and free. Most likely you don't even need to install the foreign package because it comes bundled with the base R language. In the next videos I'll show you how to use the foreign library to input various file formats.
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