Importing Data

ResearchPLS imports CSV, Excel (.xlsx), and plain-text delimited files. From a project, choose Import Dataset and select your file -- column types are inferred automatically and shown in the dataset editor for review.

For confirmatory (CB-SEM) work where only summary statistics are available, ResearchPLS also accepts a covariance or correlation matrix directly, together with the sample size it was computed from.

After import, the dataset editor lets you inspect every column, rename variables, and check the row count before moving to model building.