Linking a data set on the Web to StatCrunch is easy. You can link text or Excel files (ending with .xls extension) by simply specifying the WWW address (URL) to the data set.

If the first line in your file contains column headings (variable names), then check the use first line as column names option.

Delimiters are required to separate individual values in text files. The delimiter options are whitespace (any combination of spaces and tabs), tab, comma and semicolon. As an example, the first line in a comma delimited csv file, might look like:

Student,"City,State",Score

Note double quotes can be used to encapsulate values that contain the delimiter. The delimiter for Excel files will be automatically set to tab.