The ImportData command launches a dialog for reading data from an external file into Maple.

You can also launch the dialog from the menu bar. On the Tools tab, click Import Data ( ).

If you do not specify the filename, a file dialog opens. Select the file to import and the file format. File formats include files of type Excel, MATLAB, Image, Audio, Matrix Market, Comma Separated Values, and Delimited.

After you specify a file, you can preview it and set import options in the Data Import Assistant dialog.

The application imports the file as an rtable.

$\mathrm{ImportData}\left(\right)$

$\mathrm{csvFile}≔\mathrm{FileTools}:-\mathrm{JoinPath}\left(\left[''example/timedata.csv''\right]\,\mathrm{base}=\mathrm{datadir}\right)\:$

$\mathrm{myData}≔\mathrm{ImportData}\left(\mathrm{csvFile}\right)$