R Code Documentation Template

January 15, 2011

(This article was first published on Econometric Sense, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

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 setwd('/Users/wkuuser/Desktop/R Data Sets') # mac 
 
 setwd("P:\\R  Code References\\R Data") # windows
 
 rm(list=ls()) # get rid of any existing data 
 ls() # view open data sets
 
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YOURDATA <- read.csv("NAME.csv", na.strings=c(".", "NA", "", "?"), encoding="UTF-8")
 
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