Save Data in Files in R
Understand how to save data efficiently in R by exploring methods to export data into various file formats such as CSV, RData, Excel, TSV, and plaintext. This lesson helps you manage and preserve multiple versions of datasets for future use and compatibility with different environments.
Saving data in various formats
As data analysts progress through their work on a dataset, they often produce multiple versions of the primary dataset. This makes it necessary to save the current versions of the data for future use. It is also vital to know how to preserve data in different formats because some platforms only accept specific file formats.
For these reasons, we should know how to save data files for different environments. The R programming language provides a range of saving options, such as CSV, TSV, RData, and Excel. Let’s go through each of them.
Save CSV files
The syntax for saving data into a CSV file is ...