Timeline for Simple, reliable, open, and interoperable plain text format for storing data
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| May 20, 2017 at 16:31 | history | edited | mdewey |
Deleted csv-file tag and added project-management
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:44 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stats.stackexchange.com/ with https://stats.stackexchange.com/
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| Dec 2, 2011 at 3:11 | answer | added | Feng Jiang | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 9, 2010 at 14:13 | answer | added | Andy W | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 9, 2010 at 5:38 | answer | added | shabbychef | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 22:11 | answer | added | Dirk Eddelbuettel | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 16:32 | answer | added | russellpierce | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 15:24 | comment | added | steffen | @Jeromy,Gavin: I see. This is indeed an attribute I have seen only in tool-dependent formats (so far). All in all a very interesting question. | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 13:52 | comment | added | Roman Luštrik | @JeromyAnglim, I think that changing of the csv file depends on your software, not the csv format per se. | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 13:49 | comment | added | Gavin Simpson | @steffen: CSV doesn't store any information about the format or data-types of the data stored in the file. You can well open a CSV file in two different apps and have it interpret the data in the file in two different ways. | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 12:39 | history | edited | Jeromy Anglim | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added 140 characters in body
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| Dec 8, 2010 at 12:36 | comment | added | Jeromy Anglim | @steffen I mean things like: loading and saving a csv file in some programs changes the csv file; loading csv files can result in inappropriate conversion unless you are careful; csv files sometimes break when strange combinations of characters are added without proper escaping. Perhaps I'm confusing use of csv with the format itself, although I have heard people comment about the lack of an official standard. Of course, I realise that in many cases it works just fine. | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 12:20 | comment | added | steffen | I do not understand the issue of csv and reliability. Do you mean that csv is not strict enough ? Strict means that if it the regulations for csv were strict enough, every tool following these definitions could load a file without the need of extra parameters. | |
| Dec 8, 2010 at 11:01 | comment | added | Gavin Simpson |
I should add, R doesn't have a write.DIF() so it is a bit of a one-way street I am afraid.
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| Dec 8, 2010 at 10:43 | history | asked | Jeromy Anglim | CC BY-SA 2.5 |