# Data Import

1. Import Data
2. Update Data Import Setting
3. Re-Import (Re-load) Data

## File import

* CSV - Comma Separated Files
* TSV - Tab Separated Files
* Delimited Files
* Excel
* Statistical Files - SPSS / SAS / STATA
* R Data Files - RDS, RData
* JSON

## Databases

* Amazon Redshift
* PostgreSQL
* HP Vertica
* MySQL
* MariaDB
* Google BigQuery
* MongoDB

## Cloud Apps

* Google Analytics
* Google Spreadsheet
* Twitter
* Github Issues

## Others

* REST APIs / Remote JSON
* Web Page Scraping

## Custom Data with R Script

You can create your own custom data sources by writing R Script or using R packages like quantmod for financial data, gtrend for Google Trend, Rfacebook.

## User Defined Plugin

You can hook up your custom data source to Exploratory's Data Import Dialog UI by writing a plugin definition file (with data source definition like input parameters, underlying R function name, etc) with JSON format and corresponding R Script.