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Lesson 8 - Import Data

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What you will learn in this lesson:

• How to manipulate files and folders in RStudio.
• How to load a package.
• How to load a package.
• How to import a CSV file.
• How to import an Excel file.
• How to import an OpenDocument (OpenOffice/LibreOffice) file.
• How to work with file paths with projects.

So far we:

  • created a project
  • installed the Tidyverse

We are now ready to work on new data. Let’s start by importing some.

To match the experience you will have working with real data, I purposely did not prepare the data beforehand. In this lesson and in the next one, we will learn how to import and how to prepare data.