Question

Which of the following statement read a tab or space delimited file?

(a) read.table(filename,header=TRUE)

(b) read.CSV(filename,header=TRUE)

(c) read.table(filename,header=FALSE)

(d) read.tableall(filename,header=TRUE)

This question was posed to me in quiz.

This intriguing question originated from Commands topic in division Commands, Packages, Visualizing Data and Linear Regression of R Programming

Answer 1

Right answer is (a) read.table(filename,header=TRUE)

The explanation is: read.csv and read.csv2 are identical to read.table except for the defaults.