Chapter 1
Acquire and Prepare the Ingredients – Your Data
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Section 4
Reading Data from Fixed-Width Formatted Files, R Files, and R Libraries
In fixed-width formatted files, columns have fixed widths; if a data element does not use up the entire allotted column width, then the element is padded with spaces to make up the specified width also. During data analysis, you will create several R objects. - Download and store the student-fwf.txt file - Specify the width - Load the data from R files and libraries