Section 13 Read and Save Data

13.1 A quick look

• Work with the data
  • Download the Microsoft Excel data file: BP.xlsx
  • Open the file in Excel, check that the file is downloaded correctly
  • Save the data as a comma-separated csv file: “BP.csv”.
  • Go to Rstudio
  • Set the working directory to the folder where you saved the data
  • read the csv file in R as a data.frame object: BP
  • Save the data as an R data object: “BP.RData”