Exercise

Load external dataset

In this exercise you will read in the abalone.csv dataset which is in CSV (comma separated values) format using the read_csv() function from the readr package. You will first need to load the readr package. The abalone.csv dataset has 4177 rows and 9 columns which include sex, size and weight measurements of abalones. Learn more about the abalone.csv dataset.

Instructions

100 XP

Load the readr package using the library(packagename) function.
Create a dataset object called abalone by assigning the output <- from dataset imported using the read_csv() function from the readr package.
Check that the number of rows and columns for the abalone dataset are correct, using the dimension dim() function.
List the variables names in the abalone dataset.

Take Hint (-30 XP)