On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Sébastien Brisard <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org> wrote: > Setting aside the discussion on serialization, this would probably be > a nice extension. The problem is to find a good (as in "widely used") > standard. Do you think the file formats used by R are good candidates > (meaning: used outside the R community)? Are these file format indeed > standardized, with precise specifications? > I've heard about HDF as well, but I have not investigated.
I only chose the R stuff because in my opinion, the file formats are very easy. From my recollection, R supports simple text-based input (tab-delimited) very well. I believe it also has "object" files that it can spit out, but I don't know if we want to go that far. I'm no expert on the math software industry (so much for that math degree). I would leave that up to folks from the CM project to decide. However, I would think that if you support a textual, delimited file format, most math libraries would be able to consume it (and produce files that CM could consume as well). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
