[R] How to read in dataframe from file

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk writes:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Lukas Kubin wrote:
> 
> > I need to read in a dataframe stored in a cvs file. The problem is I don't
> > know how to tell R the first column (in format like "7-Jan-80") is a
> > vector of dates.
> > Could you help me, please?
> 
> It seems unlikely to me that the dataframe is stored in a cvs file. (A
> dataframe is an R object.)  So let me guess that you have a text file
> stored under cvs, which you need to read into R.  The tool to do so is
> read.table, and you should read the column as a character vector, then
> call as.POSIXct(strptime()) on it, to convert it to a "POSIXct" date-time
> column.

..or perhaps it is a csv file (comma separated variables),
in which case, substitute read.csv().

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