PRDV420: Practice: Export to a CSV File

Try this short exercise to practice exporting data in CSV and Excel format. This exercise does not count toward your grade. It is just for practice!

Exercise:

Use the R dataset swiss (or any other dataset loaded in your R environment).
Save it in *.csv format by using the base-R function write.csv and the write_csv.
Also, save the data in Excel format using the function write_excel_csv.
Open the resulting files and compare.

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