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Intermediate Importing Data in R

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Updated 05/2025

Parse data in any format. Whether it's flat files, statistical software, databases, or data right from the web.

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Course Description

In this course, you will take a deeper dive into the wide range of data formats out there. More specifically, you'll learn how to import data from relational databases and how to import and work with data coming from the web. Finally, you'll get hands-on experience with importing data from statistical software packages such as SAS, STATA, and SPSS.

Prerequisites

Introduction to Importing Data in R

1

Importing data from databases (Part 1)

Connect to a database

Establish a connection

Inspect the connection

Import table data

List the database tables

Import users

Import all tables

How do the tables relate?

2

Importing data from databases (Part 2)

SQL Queries from inside R

Query tweater (1)

Query tweater (2)

Query tweater (3)

Query tweater (4)

Join the query madness!

DBI internals

Send - Fetch - Clear

Be polite and ...

3

Importing data from the web (Part 1)

HTTP

Import flat files from the web

Secure importing

Downloading files

Import Excel files from the web

Downloading any file, secure or not

Reading a text file from the web

HTTP? httr! (1)

HTTP? httr! (2)

4

Importing data from the web (Part 2)

APIs & JSON

From JSON to R

Import JSON data from API

JSON & jsonlite

JSON practice (1)

JSON practice (2)

Minify and prettify

5

Importing data from statistical software packages

Import SAS data with haven

Import STATA data with haven

What does the graphic tell?

Import SPSS data with haven

Factorize, round two

Import STATA data with foreign (1)

Import STATA data with foreign (2)

Do you know your data?

Import SPSS data with foreign (1)

Excursion: Correlation

Import SPSS data with foreign (2)

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Good course to know a lot of ways to import data from many sources. And also review few analysis techniques. Thanks for making this for all the learners.

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Shari

Qazi Muhammad

"Good course to know a lot of ways to import data from many sources. And also review few analysis techniques. Thanks for making this for all the learners."

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