Having difficulties reading .csv files

[swirlTA]

Opening a .csv file with Excel, Open Office and that kind of spreadsheet readers might change the file (without previous notice), often changing the delimiters the .csv uses. So if you're having trouble reading a .csv file that you had previously viewed with any of these programs:

1. Check the result that the Rstudio console gives you to see if the delimiters changed (in this course we're always using tabs "\t"), so that you can update your read_delim() function.
2. Or download the file again to use the old delimiters (but don't open it!).

If your Internet browser is opening the file automatically, you should be able to change that in the preferences tab of the browser.