Steve,

If you're looking for a way to embed tables from csv created in a
spreadsheet program (usually easier than editing csv or markdown table by
hand, unless the table is very small) into a markdown document, you might
consider using R-markdown to parse csv and display it using `pander` (
http://rapporter.github.io/pander/), `knitr::kable` or other
markdown-table-rendering functions.

Cheers,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:23 AM Loyall, David <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
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> > 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
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