4 Importing Data

Before we can do any kind of analysis, we need to get our text into R. Here we look at five different ways of doing this: a) using .txt files, b) using .pdf files, c) using .csv files, d) using an API, and e) using web scraping techniques. Before we do that, though, let us first look at how R looks at text in the first place, and what some of the most basic things we can do with text there are.