[R] simple data import of .csv

[William Revelle]

>Hello,
>
>I am a complete beginner to R.  I use a mac and want to import and read a
>.csv dataset stored as .csv file.
>
>I understand I eventually enter <- read.csv("size.csv", header=T)   , but I
>can't get R to find my file, which is called size.csv and located
>/Users/davidoconnor/Desktop/Eart-125/size.csv
>
>Thank you very much!
>
>David
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Two solutions:

To find the file, use file.choose()
e.g.,
my.file.name <- file.choose()    #and then use the normal mac tools 
to find the file
my.data <- read.csv(my.file.name,header=TRUE)

or, if you want to just read it from the clipboard:

library(psych)
my.data <- read.clipboard.csv()    #after copying the data to the clipboard

Bill


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