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Sebastian
Sebastian

Reputation: 967

Reading the dataframe syntax

I'm pretty new to R.

I just imported a CSV file into my R environment. I see the name of the dataframe and the name of the columns, but there is information below and I don't know what to make of it.

It looks like it might be records of the data types that R guessed when it imported the data, but I'm not sure. Can you confirm what it's communicating? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (1)

Gregor Thomas
Gregor Thomas

Reputation: 145775

The functions in the readr package add an extra spec attribute to the data they read in. It won't affect anything in later code. I assume it is intended for debugging purposes in case your data is imported poorly, you can see what was used so you can try something different in a manual override.

It's mentioned a bit in the readr vignette, especially the last two sections. You can access the spec attribute directly with either attr(your_data, "spec") or spec(your_data).

Upvotes: 2

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