Code to import data from a Stack overflow query into R

Question

When I try to answer a question in Stack Overflow about R, a good part of my time is spent trying to rebuild the data given as example (unless the question author has been n

Answer 1

You can also ask the questioner to use the dput function which dumps any data structure in a way that can be just copy-pasted into R. e.g.

> zz
  a  b   c
1 1 11 foo
2 2 12 bar
3 3 13 baz
4 4 14 bar
5 5 15 foo

> dput(zz)
structure(list(a = 1:5, b = 11:15, c = structure(c(3L, 1L, 2L, 
1L, 3L), .Label = c("bar", "baz", "foo"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("a", 
"b", "c"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -5L))

> xx <- structure(list(a = 1:5, b = 11:15, c = structure(c(3L, 1L, 2L, 
+ 1L, 3L), .Label = c("bar", "baz", "foo"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("a", 
+ "b", "c"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -5L))
> xx
  a  b   c
1 1 11 foo
2 2 12 bar
3 3 13 baz
4 4 14 bar
5 5 15 foo