3.1 Finer control of CSV imports
We can provide finer control over importing text files using additional options (“adverbs”) to
the import
function (“verb”). For example, it might be good to check if all the column
names are unique, and to make them not have spaces (which are awkward in terms of typing and functionality). You can add the option check.names = TRUE
to the command:
hr_data <- import('data/HR_Data.csv', check.names = TRUE)
Similarly, if you’re using European data, where the decimal point is denoted by a comma, you can add the following option:
hr_data <- import('data/HR_Data.csv', check.names = TRUE, dec = ',')
You can see most of the options in the help file for import, which you can access
either from the Help
pane, or by typing ?import
or help(import)
in the console