5 Chapter 5: Importing and Standardizing Data

Learning outcomes

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to

• Import tabular data from .txt, .csv, .xls, .xlsx, and .dta files
• View and change columns between numeric, character, and date types.

Chapter content

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Tutorial video

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Mini-case video

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