newcomer please help me (reading in data)

[Conz87]

Hi, im new here, and unfamiliar with where to post. I am inexperienced Rstudio user. I am struggling with a lot of the language. For an assignment i have to use a package and or dataset to to create a summary, a histogram or bar char associated with a variable, and a plot that presents a relationship between two variables. I uploaded a csv file, and im trying to create a dateset from it ?

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read.csv('International_Migration_Database.csv')

summary(International_Migration_Database)

International_Migration_Database <- International_Migration_Database(country = "all",
indicator = c("number of students" = "value",),
start = 2000, end = 2020, extra = TRUE)

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none of this is loading, so i dont know what do ?

[jrkrideau]

@Conz87

read.csv('International_Migration_Database.csv')

What happens when you do

read.csv('International_Migration_Database.csv')

Are you getting any error messages or output in the Console? If so can you post them here?

For general reference have a look at

FAQ: How to do a minimal reproducible example ( reprex ) for beginners

A minimal reproducible example consists of the following items: A minimal dataset, necessary to reproduce the issue The minimal runnable code necessary to reproduce the issue, which can be run on the given dataset, and including the necessary information on the used packages. Let's quickly go over each one of these with examples: Minimal Dataset (Sample Data) You need to provide a data frame that is small enough to be (reasonably) pasted on a post, but big enough to reproduce your issue. Let's say, as an example, that you are working with the iris data frame head(iris) #> Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species #> 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.…

[Conz87]

Hi jrkridea

So when i run read.csv('International_Migration_Database.csv') i get the following error message.

read.csv('International_Migration_Database.csv')
Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(file, "rt") :
cannot open file 'International_Migration_Database.csv': No such file or directory

However, i did import the file.

[dvetsch75]

No such file or directory is R's way of telling you it can't find the file you are looking for. Have you tried using an absolute path to the file?

df <- read.csv('C:/Users/Path/To/File/Interanational_Migration_Database.csv')

[jrkrideau]

@Conz87

However, i did import the file.

I don't understand this. As @ dvetsch75 states, " No such file or directory is R's way of telling you it can't find the file you are looking for" .

I cannot see how you could import the file.

[Conz87]

I was never able to resolve the above issue, thanks for your help

[Conz87]

Hi again,

A huge struggle i have is interpreting data from CSV files, it seems like many of the CSV files im using are not formatted in the correct way. One particular CSV file was downloaded from an indicator called International Student Mobility from the OECD. I noticed i can install the OECD package and use the library function to generate data from OECD in my script. Now i want to isolate this data to the international student mobility indicator, however i cant seem to find the series code i need to run to do so? Any tips on how i can find this? I was advised to look out of like an I icon, but i cant seem to locate it here, and im imaging this code should look like random letters of 3/4 split by a full stop across a sequence?

[dvetsch75]

Can you maybe post a reprex of what you are trying to do? Without either a sample of your data or some code to work with, it is hard to tell what you are trying to do/what may be going wrong.