Reading contents of a Text File in R Programming – read.table() Function

read.table() function in R Language is used to read data from a text file. It returns the data in the form of a table.

Syntax:
read.table(filename, header = FALSE, sep = “”)

Parameters:
header: represents if the file contains header row or not
sep: represents the delimiter value used in file

Example 1: Reading data from same directory

# R program to read a text file

# Get content into a data frame
data <- read.table("TextFileExample.txt",
                    header = FALSE, sep = " ")

# Printing content of Text File
print(data)

Output:

   V1 V2 V3
1 100  A  a
2 200  B  b
3 300  C  c
4 400  D  d
5 500  E  e
6 600  F  f

Example 2: Reading data from different directory

# R program to read a text file

# Reading data from another directory
x<-read.table("D://Data//myfile.txt", header = FALSE)

# print x
print(x)

Output:

   V1 V2 V3
1 100 a1 b1
2 200 a2 b2
3 300 a3 b3

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