On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to invite you to join me in this effort. Whichever libraries you use or maintain, please partake in this consolidation effort.
As discussed, am looking at the data importers ((text)-file or system to CL array, i.e. the prototypical CSV to CL-array importer), and would be happy to work with others who want to take a lead on this topic (I'm aware of 5-6 blog posts over the past few years to review as part of due diligence, and 5+ different systems which range from simple importers to a bit more sophisticated state machine parsers...)
I eventually need something like a unified version of R's foreign package (unified with the other data importer and exporter packages), but of course, need to start somewhere, and somewhere is with CSV, TSV, and similiar delimiter-separated-values (DSV).
best, -tony
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