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Practice Quiz
Q1. Which package do you need to install before reading an Excel file in R?
a. readExcel
b. readxl
c. readxlsx
d. No package is needed. This functionality is built into R.
Answer: b. readxl
Q2. What is the purpose of the readLines() function?
a. Reads each text line (ending with a line break) in a text file and returns a character factor.
b. Reads each text line (with a line break) in a text file and returns a data frame.
c. Reads each text line (with a line break) in a text file and returns a character variable.
d. Reads each text line (ending with a line break) in a text file and returns a character vector.
Answer: d. Reads each text line (ending with a line break) in a text file and returns a character vector.
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Q3. Which data structure is more suitable to be exported into a text file rather than a .csv or Excel file?
a. String or characters
b. Matrices
c. Data frames
d. Datasets
Answer: a. String or characters
Q4. Complete the sentence: _________________ is a communication protocol for fetching web resources for clients from servers on the Internet.
a. HTTP
b. REST
c. TCP
d. DNS
Answer: a. HTTP
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Q5. Complete the sentence: In an HTML page, if the <head> and <body> nodes have the same parent, <html>, they are said to be ___________________ to each other.
a. Nested nodes
b. Sibling nodes
c. Child nodes
d. Root nodes
Answer: b. Sibling nodes
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Graded Quiz
Q1. Assume you have read a .csv file into a data frame variable called employee. It has 20 rows of data and three variables: name, age, and title. What is the correct statement to use to return the fifth row of data in the name and title columns?
a. employee[2:3, 1:5]
b. employee[c(“name”, “title”), 5]
c. employee[5, 2:3]
d. employee[5, c(“name”, “title”)]
Answer: d. employee[5, c(“name”, “title”)]
Q2. How do you return the number of characters in each paragraph of a text file that has been read into a character vector?
a. Use the nchar() function.
b. Use the length() function.
c. Use the scan() function.
d. Use the file.size() function.
Answer: a. Use the nchar() function.
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Q3. Which package do you need to install before writing to an Excel file in R?
a. writexl
b. writexlsx
c. No package is needed. This functionality is built into R.
d. xlsx
Answer: d. xlsx
Q4. You want to get a resource by its URL using an HTTP request and assign the HTTP response containing status code, headers, response body to a response variable. Which function should you use?
a. response <-HEAD(“https://www.mysite.com”)
b. response <- GET(“https://www.mysite.com”)
c. response <-POST(“https://www.mysite.com”)
d. response <-PUT(“https://www.mysite.com”)
Answer: b. response <- GET(“https://www.mysite.com”)
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Q5. After reading an HTML page from a URL, what must you do to get the <body> node from the root <html> node?
a. Use the html_text() function to return the <html> node.
b. Use the html_node() function to return the <html> node.
c. Use the html_text() function to return the <body> node of the HTML.
d. Use the html_node() function to return the <body> as a child node of <html> node.
Answer: d. Use the html_node() function to return the <body> as a child node of <html> node.
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