I'm trying to get R to read data from a txt file, but the file is not properly made, so it's giving me lots of errors.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to extract a dataframe to be able to work with from this, but I trully don't know how to.
The files are all in this link.
An example with any of them would work.
Thanks a lot!
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I have a dataframe I want to share using dput.
I want all of it and not just some of it.
When I use dput(), the result is so big that it does not all fit in the Rstudio Console.
I tried assigning the dput to a variable and saving that variable as a txt file but it did not work, the txt file was made of unreadable characters.
Does anyone know a way of copying the whole length of a dput eventhough it's huge so that I can then share it on here with a google doc link or whatever ?
You are looking for dump().
try:
dump("iris", "iris.txt")
I am using R to analyze some text data. After doing some aggregation, I had a new dataframe I wanted to write to a csv file, so I can use it in other analyses. The dataframe looks correct in r- it only has 2 columns with text data- but once I write the csv and open it, the text is scattered across different columns. Here is the code I was using:
write.csv(new_df, "4.19 Group 1_agg by user try 2.csv")
I tried adding in an extra bit of code to specify that it should be using UTF-8, since I've heard this could be an encoding error, so the code then looked like this:
write.csv(new_df, "4.19 Group 1_agg by user try 2.csv", fileEncoding = "UTF-8")
I also tried reading in the file differently (using fread instead of read.csv)
Still, the csv file looks wrong/messy in many places. Here is what it should look like:
This is what it looks like currently:
Again, I think the error must be in writing the csv file, because everything looks good in R when I check it using names and head. Any help is appreciated, thank you!
I hope someone can help me solve the problem I am currently facing with excel. I have been trying to export a csv file I wrote in Excel Ver 16 into R studio but it keeps giving the "incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'Book1.csv'" error. I have included the screen shot of the error and the files I had used for this. This doesnt seem to happen for the other data set I downloaded directly from Kaggle called "adult-test.csv" though.
I have tried everything from reinstalling R, R studio, Excel, I even resorted to using Google Sheets and it still doesn't work. If anyone knows what I am doing wrong please do help!
Image of my R studio code
Picture of the csv file I am failing to read
Hard to guess here.
Sometimes Excel saves csv files incorrectly - even though cells below your table are empty Excel saves them in the csv because maybe in the past, there was something written in there.
So, here is a suggestion
Maybe try to read the Excel file directly, not save it first as a csv. You can do that for example with read.xlsx() from the openxlsx package.
If that does not help, please open the csv file with a text editor (not with Excel again). You will then be able to see the actual problem and if necessary, post the text here (instead of the Excel screenshot)
I define a DataFrame named data and want to write it into .csv file. I used writetable("result_data.csv", data) but it doesn't work.
This is the dataframe
error details
To write a data frame to a disk you should use the CSV.jl package like this (also make sure that you have write right to the directory you want to save the file on Juliabox):
using CSV
CSV.write("result_data.csv", data)
If this fails then please report back in the comment I will investigate it further.
I've got a folder full of .doc files and I want to merge them all into R to create a dataframe with filename as one column and content as another column (which would include all content from the .doc file.
Is this even possible? If so, could you provide me with an overview of how to go about doing this?
I tried starting out by converting all the files to .txt format using readtext() using the following code:
DATA_DIR <- system.file("C:/Users/MyFiles/Desktop")
readtext(paste0(DATA_DIR, "/files/*.doc"))
I also tried:
setwd("C:/Users/My Files/Desktop")
I couldn't get either to work (output from R was Error in list_files(file, ignore_missing, TRUE, verbosity) : File '' does not exist.) but I'm not sure if this is necessary for what I want to do.
Sorry that this is quite vague; I guess I want to know first and foremost if what I want to do can be done. Many thanks!