Hi James, 2012/5/9 James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com>: > 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. > That's what I was thinking of: binary file formats.
> > 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). > We should be careful not rewriting Commons-CSV... Best regards, Sébastien --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
