I saw some posts on this, but am not a super advanced programmer.
All I need to do is specify the column types when I create a data frame from a csv. Right now,
main <- read.csv(file = 'main.csv')
is putting first name as a Logical, date of birth as a text field, etc.
How do I read this in, and tell it to create a column called First_Name as a character/string, DOB as a date, etc.?
I do not think that read.csv will do this. you might try the tidyverse read_csv which seems to make same intelligent guesses but in some cases you may have to do the conversions after loading the data.
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