How to get a .csv file into R?

Question

I have this .csv file:

ID,GRADES,GPA,Teacher,State

3,\"C\",2,\"Teacher3\",\"MA\"

1,\"A\",4,\"Teacher1\",\"California\"

And what I want to

Answer 1

Since you say you want to access by position once your data is read in, you should know about R's subsetting/ indexing functions.

The easiest is

df[row,column]
#example
df[1:5,] #rows 1:5, all columns
df[,5] #all rows, column 5. 

Other methods are here. I personally use the dplyr package for intuitive data manipulation (not by position).