This will allow you to work with the data later and still retain the original dataset. It can also allow you to share your dataset with other analysts. Before learning how to save a dataset in R, it is a good idea to create an example dataset.
The following R script creates an R data frame [explained in another topic of this learning infrastructure] for you to practice saving. Your R session now has a data frame object named df that you can use for the exercises below. R dataset files. One of the simplest ways to save your data is by saving it into an RData file with the function save. R saves your data to the working folder on your computer disk in a binary file. This storage method is efficient and the only drawback is that, because it is stored in an R binary format, you can only open it in R [there are some exceptions that will not be discussed here].
You can save the data frame df [from the above example] using this command:. While the save command can have several arguments, this example uses only two. The first argument is the name of your R data object, df in this example. The second argument assigns a name to the RData file, df. RData in this example. You can use any text as your file name as long as it does not contain any embedded spaces. While you do not have to use the.
RData extension, this is a recommended practice because the. Its main purpose is to evaluate and auto-print expressions as if in a toplevel context, e. Regalado Chavarrias Reviewer. What is an argument in R?
Arguments in R Programming Language. Arguments are always named when you define a function. Arguments are optional; you do not have to specify a value for them. They can have a default value, which is used if you do not specify a value for that argument yourself.
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Oh, and by the way, you can set the entries for NA values with the na parameter. If you think that I should also cover other formats of saving a dataset on the disk, please let me know in the comments and I will try to cover them as well.
To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Rcrastinate. Want to share your content on R-bloggers? What I will show you In this post, I want to show you a few ways how you can save your datasets in R. Why would you want to know that? What are we going to do?
Preparation: Load some data I will use some fairly but not very large dataset from the car package. There are two ways of doing this: Use the function save to create an. Rdata file. In these files, you can store several variables. Use the function saveRDS to create an. Rds file. You can only store one variable in it. Option 1. Rdata" By default, the parameter compress of the save function is turned on.
If you want to load such an. Rdata" Then, the object is available in your workspace with its old name. Rdata" Now, if you do load "data. Rds" data. Rds" Now, you have another R object in your workspace which is an exact copy of data.
You can move your working directory to any folder on your computer with the function setwd. Just give setwd the file path to your new working directory. I prefer to set my working directory to a folder dedicated to whichever project I am currently working on. That way I can keep all of my data, scripts, graphs, and reports in the same place. If the file path does not begin with your root directory, R will assume that it begins at your current working directory. If you start R from a UNIX command line as on Linux machines , the working directory will be whichever directory you were in when you called R.
You can see what files are in your working directory with list. If you see the file that you would like to open in your working directory, then you are ready to proceed. How you open files in your working directory will depend on which type of file you would like to open. Plain-text files are one of the most common ways to save data. They are very simple and can be read by many different computer programs—even the most basic text editors.
For this reason, public data often comes as plain-text files. For example, the Census Bureau, the Social Security Administration, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics all make their data available as plain-text files. A plain-text file stores a table of data in a text document.
Each row of the table is saved on its own line, and a simple convention is used to separate the cells within a row. Often cells are separated by a comma, but they can also be separated by a tab, a pipe delimiter i. Each file only uses one method of separating cells, which minimizes confusion. All plain-text files can be saved with the extension. Since entries in the data set mentioned earlier are separated with a comma, this file would be a comma-separated-values file and would usually be saved with the extension.
To load a plain-text file, use read. The first argument of read. If the file path does not begin with your root directory, R will append it to the end of the file path that leads to your working directory. You can give read.
The two most important are sep and header. If the royal flush data set was saved as a file named poker. Use sep to tell read. To find this out, you might have to open your file in a text editor and look at it. Use header to tell read. Oftentimes data sets will use special symbols to represent missing information. If you know that your data uses a certain symbol to represent missing entries, you can tell read.
You could read the data set into R and convert the missing values into NAs as you go with the command:. Sometimes a plain-text file will come with introductory text that is not part of the data set. Or, you may decide that you only wish to read in part of a data set. You can do these things with the skip and nrow arguments. Use skip to tell R to skip a specific number of lines before it starts reading in values from the file.
Use nrow to tell R to stop reading in values after it has read in a certain number of lines. R wants to convert every character string into a factor. Sometimes factors are useful.
Also factors cause weird behavior, especially when you want to display data. Thankfully, it is easy to do this. If you will be loading more than one data file, you can change the default factoring behavior at the global level with:. This will ensure that all strings will be read as strings, not as factors, until you end your R session, or rechange the global default by running:. R also comes with some prepackaged short cuts for read.
The first shortcut, read. These are files where each cell is separated by a tab. These functions tell R that the data uses a comma instead of a period to denote decimal places. One type of plain-text file defies the pattern by using its layout to separate data cells. Each row is placed in its own line as with other plain-text files , and then each column begins at a specific number of characters from the lefthand side of the document. To achieve this, an arbitrary number of character spaces is added to the end of each entry to correctly position the next entry.
These documents are known as fixed-width files and usually end with the extension. In each row, the suit entry begins exactly 10 characters from the start of the line.
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