Section 2.5 TSVs
Another common form of data is text files that usually come in the form of TXT or TSV file formats. Like CSVs, text files are simple, plain-text files; however, rather than columns being separated by commas, they are separated by tabs (represented by "\t" in plain-text). Like CSVs, they don’t allow text formatting (i.e. text colors in cells) and are able to be opened on many different software platforms. This makes them good candidates for storing data.
Subsection 2.5.1 Reading TSVs into R
The process for reading these files into R is similar to what you’ve seen so far. We’ll again use the
readr package, but we’ll instead use the read_tsv() function.
## read TSV into R
df_tsv <- read_tsv("sample_data - Sheet1.tsv")
## look at the object
head(df_tsv)
