{"id":8196,"date":"2024-03-14T07:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-read-data-from-a-txt-file-in-r\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:46:05","slug":"how-to-read-data-from-a-txt-file-in-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-read-data-from-a-txt-file-in-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Read TXT Files in R with read.table()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In R language, the read.table() function can be used to read data from a txt file. Here is a simple example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8bfb\u53d6txt\u6587\u4ef6\u6570\u636e<\/span>\r\ndata <span class=\"hljs-operator\">&lt;-<\/span> read.table<span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">(<\/span><span class=\"hljs-string\">\"data.txt\"<\/span><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">,<\/span> header<span class=\"hljs-operator\">=<\/span><span class=\"hljs-literal\">TRUE<\/span><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">)<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u67e5\u770b\u6570\u636e\u6846\u7684\u7ed3\u6784<\/span>\r\nstr<span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">(<\/span>data<span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">)<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u67e5\u770b\u6570\u636e\u6846\u7684\u524d\u51e0\u884c\u6570\u636e<\/span>\r\nhead<span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">(<\/span>data<span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">)<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we assume that there is a txt file named &#8220;data.txt&#8221; containing data. 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