Data Science

Reading from Web and APIs

Question 1
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 100%
Which of the following is an important parameter of read.table function?
file
header
sep
all of the mentioned
Explanation:
More parameters are required for loading the data.
Question 2
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 50%
Which of the following function is used to read data off the webpages?
read.web
read.Lines
read.Line
all of the mentioned
Explanation:
read.Lines function will extract the web page data.
Question 3
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 100%
Point out the correct statement.
XLConnect package has more options for manipulating access files
XLConnect vignette package can also be used for manipulating excel files
write.xlsx write out an excel file with different argument
None of the mentioned
Explanation:
write.xlsx write out an excel file with similar argument.
Question 4
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 33%
Point out the wrong statement.
data.table inherits from data.frame
data.table is written in Java
data.table is faster at subsetting and updating data
none of the mentioned
Explanation:
data.table is written in C.
Question 5
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 100%
Which of the following function programmatically extract parts of XML file?
XmlSApply
XmlApply
XmlSApplyData
All of the mentioned
Explanation:
xmlSApply are simple wrappers for tapply and lappy functions.
Question 6
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 100%
Which of the following package is used for reading excel data?
xlsx
xlsc
read.sheet
all of the mentioned
Explanation:
read.xlsx and read.xlsx functions are part of xlsx package.
Question 7
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 33%
Which of the following package is used to connect MySQL RDBMS with R?
RMySQL vignette
MySQL vignette
RSQL vignette
None of the mentioned
Explanation:
This package contains meta information and index.
Question 8
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 100%
httr package does not work well with facebook and twitter API.
True
False
Explanation:
Most modern APIs use something like oauth.
Question 9
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 33%
Which of the following package is used for reading HTML and XML data?
httr
http
httx
all of the mentioned
Explanation:
httr contains tools for Working with URLs and HTTP.
Question 10
Marks : +2 | -2
Pass Ratio : 50%
Which of the following package is used for reading GIS data?
rdgal
rgeos
raster
all of the mentioned
Explanation:
A geographic information system is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data.