Queries and sets the following components of Data
(see ReadData):
headers, skip, sep, nrows, na.strings,
quote, comment.char; and
data.sourcecharacter;
a description of the connection (i.e. a file pathname).
Details
This GUI lets you specify the format and connection type for table
data. Data connections are defined as the path to the file to be opened or a
complete URL (e.g. http://, ftp:// or file://), or clipboard.
Files are limited to text format (.txt.csv, or
.dat); however, they can be compressed by gzip with additional
extension .gz.