3 Data Loading

The first step in any data analysis is loading the data. In this lesson, we'll learn how to load data from different formats.

The first step in any data analysis is loading the data. In this lesson, we'll learn how to load data from different formats.

• In Tabular Data we introduce the readr package to load data from CSV files into a data frame or Tibble. We also learn how to load other tabular file formats like Excel, Google Sheets, and R-Data Source (RDS) files.

• The term Tidy Data refers to a certain format we want our data to be in before we start analyzing it. We'll introduce what we mean by this and how we can achieve this.

• When we successfully loaded a new data set, we usually start by Exploring New Data. In this lesson, we introduce some useful functions for that.