Import CSV file into R

Method 1: Using read.csv() methods.

Here we will import csv file using the read.csv() method in R.

Syntax: read.csv(path, header = TRUE, sep = “,”)

Arguments : 

  • path : The path of the file to be imported
  • header : By default : TRUE . Indicator of whether to import column headings.
  • sep = “,”  : The separator for the values in each row.

R




# specifying the path
path <- "/gfg.csv"
 
# reading contents of csv file
content <- read.csv(path)
 
# contents of the csv file
print (content)


Output:

  ID Name    Post Age 
1 5 H CA 67
2 6 K SDE 39
3 7 Z Admin 28

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