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I have a .csv file in my workstation. How can I open that file in R and do statistical calculation?

Makoto
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Uselesssss
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    have a look at the [R Data Import Export](http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.pdf) manual – GSee Nov 07 '12 at 19:09

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You would use the read.csv function; for example:

dat = read.csv("spam.csv", header = TRUE)

You can also reference this tutorial for more details.

Note: make sure the .csv file to read is in your working directory (using getwd()) or specify the right path to file. If you want, you can set the current directory using setwd.

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