10.10 Challenge

.csv files are the most common format for sharing data in R. “csv” stands for “comma seperate volume”, and you will note that each value on a line is seperated by a comma (some things with computers do make sense on the first try!).

Sometimes you will encounter .txt files which separate data other ways, such as spaces, tabs, or by lining up everything explicitly in rows. On the wildlifeR GitHub directory we used before (https://github.com/brouwern/wildlifeR/tree/master/inst/extdata) these is a file “Medley1998.txt”. Download this file and load it using RStudio’s Import Dataset function. See if RStudio recognizes that its not .csv.