9.8 Additional tips
- There are many functions other than
read.table()
for importing data. For example, the functionsread.csv
andread.delim
are specific for importing comma-separated and tab-separated text files. In practice, these functions do the same thing asread.table
, but they don’t require you to specify asep
argument. Personally, I always useread.table()
because it always works and I don’t like trying to remember unnecessary functions.