We have these files: - cholest.csv - cholest.sav - cholest.dta - cholest.xlsx
*Always make sure that you set the working directory first!
data.csv = read.csv("cholest.csv") #most natural way to open data in R
data.csv
library(foreign) #library to read .sav (SPSS) and .dta (STATA) files
data.sav = read.spss("cholest.sav", to.data.frame = TRUE) #SPSS
data.sav