From the course: Tableau and R for Analytics Projects
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Import data into R
From the course: Tableau and R for Analytics Projects
Import data into R
- [Instructor] We'll do most of our analysis in this course using Tableau, but it is useful to know how to analyze the data in R by itself. In this movie, I will demonstrate the most fundamental R skill, loading data into a data frame. Once you've created the data frame you can write R expressions to analyze your data. I've started a new R console, and I can begin by assigning data to a data frame. To start, at the command line, I will type the name of the variable that will represent my data frame. So I'll type revenue, the assignment operator in R can either be an equals sign or the one that most programs prefer to use is a left pointing arrow. You see that we have a less than sign, followed by a hyphen, and it looks like an arrow pointing toward the variable that we just created. Now, we need to load the data into the data frame. To do that from a .csv, or comma-separated value file, we can use the read.table command…
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