Introduction I have taken the file from the link https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/ I have selected the soccer predictions data and the info is at:https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/soccer-spi

library(dplyr)
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## Attaching package: 'dplyr'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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##     filter, lag
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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##     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
soccer_matches <- read.csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datanerddhanya/DATA607/main/spi_matches.csv')
soccer_matches <- soccer_matches[,c('season','date','league_id','league','team1','team2','spi1','spi2',   'prob1','prob2')]
soccer_matches <- rename(soccer_matches,c(home_team = team1,away_team = team2))
variable.names(soccer_matches)
##  [1] "season"    "date"      "league_id" "league"    "home_team" "away_team"
##  [7] "spi1"      "spi2"      "prob1"     "prob2"

////Conclusion I was successfully able to read a file into a data frame. i was able to select specific columns in the data frame i was able to rename some of the column names in teh data frame.