Learning by Explaining

Chunking ideas I should not forget

Getting and Cleaning Data

Week 2

Open connection with:

  • file: a local text file
  • url: a file in the web
  • gzfile: a .gz file (gzip: compressed file)
  • bzfile: a .bzip2 file (bzip2: compressed file)
  • ?connections for more info

“Foreign packages” allows reading files from Minitab, S, SAS, Stata, Systat:

  • read.arff: Weka
  • read.dta: Stata
  • read.mtp: Minitab
  • read.octave: Octave
  • read.spss: SPSS
  • read.xport: SAS

DB Packages

  • RPostgreSQL
  • RODBC
  • RMongo

Data

  • read.fwf: read fixed width format files
  • read.table:
  • read.csv:
  • read.delim:

Reading image packages

  • jpeg
  • readbitmap
  • png
  • EBImage
  • FITSio

GIS data

  • rdgal
  • rgeos
  • raster

Music

  • tuneR
  • seewave

Week 3

Subsetting and Sorting