Note that you can cut and paste data from Excel into R by selecting the (rectangular) cells you want to copy in Excel, and then specifying file="clipboard" in read.delim (or read.table with sep=). You can also read directly from a URL of text data by specifying file to be the URL (with the "http:" part included).
| attach | data.entry | detach |
| read.csv | read.delim | read.fwf |
| readLines | read.table | scan |
| write.table |
Common/Important Options for Bringing In Data:
| file | header | na.strings |
| sep | skip | which |
| Sweave | toBibtex | toLatex |
| bmp | jpeg | |
| postscript | replayPlot | savePlot |