In this book excerpt, learn how to import data into R from spreadsheets, HTML tables, and more.

The table below shows my favorite go-to R packages for data import, wrangling, visualization and analysis — plus a few miscellaneous tasks tossed in. The package names in the table are clickable ...

If you have just a small section of data already in a table -- a spreadsheet, say, or a Web HTML table -- you can Ctrl-C copy those data to your Windows clipboard and import them into R.