Timeline for Simple, reliable, open, and interoperable plain text format for storing data
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:44 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 10, 2010 at 13:40 | comment | added | Andy W | @Jeromy Anglim, for point #1, I would guess you normally only have to do this once (unless you migrate between two different environments frequently that can not read or output the others files). For point #3, fixed text files fix that problem. I have never come across a situation where SPSS formatted a different file type incorrectly. If you don't need to disseminate the files this whole question is mute, if you can get the file to save correctly in whatever environment you will be working in there is no more need for conversion/storage. | |
| Dec 10, 2010 at 5:29 | comment | added | Jeromy Anglim | (1) I would like to be able to open and close the data file as easily as I can open an Rdata, Excel, or SPSS data file. Spending time walking through a wizard works, but it's not quite the simple and reliable workflow that I'd ideally like. (2) Yep, I agree about using an irregular delimiter. In general Tab is sufficient for me most of the time; (3) I don't have huge problems with CSV/TSV. I have occasional problems that are easily resolved. However, I'd like not to have to think about the issues of delimiters and format conversion. | |
| Dec 9, 2010 at 14:13 | history | answered | Andy W | CC BY-SA 2.5 |