If you already use github for everything, consider https://help.github.com/articles/rendering-csv-and-tsv-data/ .
If you don't use github for everything, consider staying away from it. It's not healthy for the open source ecosystem for so many eggs to be in one privately owned basket. Anyway, there are other, better tabular data solutions available if you host your own repo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_spreadsheet (I'm not sure which of these support persisting the sheet to a repo...) Cheers, --Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steven Haddock > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 12:13 PM > To: Software Carpentry Discussion > Subject: [Discuss] Editable tables in repos? > > I wonder if anyone has a tip for keeping an active spreadsheet-like table in a > repo. > > Currently we are using Markdown. It is manageable, but it is not super > convenient to edit individual cells. > > The alternatives I see are using Google Docs outside the repo (but then not > in the repo), or having a database file (but then you would not get the > formatted web preview and easy editing). > > Any silver bullets? > > -Steve > > __________________________________________________________ > _____ > Steven Haddock, PhD : [email protected] > Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute > 7700 Sandholdt Rd., Moss Landing, CA 95039-9644 > 831-775-1793 (office) 831-775-2095 (lab) 831-775-1620 (fax) > > * Practical Computing textbook: http://practicalcomputing.org/mbari > * Scientific publications: http://www.mbari.org/~haddock/lit.html > * Report marine sightings: http://jellywatch.org > * Bioluminescence Web Page: http://biolum.eemb.ucsb.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software- > carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
