9 - Importing Raw Text Files

In this short tutorial you will learn to open and read raw text files into R objects. And to that end, I will use the 3 different options that R provides us, the readChar(), the readLines() and the read_file() functions.

0:11 - Introduction to Importing Text Files in R 0:59 - The text file lorem_ipsum.txt 1:55 - Where to find the text file lorem_ipsum.txt (the download link: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/atantos/Youtube/master/lorem_ipsum.txt ) 2:16 - Setting the working directory in RStudio 3:33 - The first option (using readLines() ) 5:21 - The second option (using readChar() ) 6:49 - The third option (using read_file() ) 8:21 - The code summary ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtjdCcQ2HdQ