Hi,
as part of the Omegahat project we announce a
first version of StatDataML,
which should become a XML format for statistical
datasets.
The basic idea is to create an XML standard for
data exchange,
together with import/export functions for as many
applications as
possible. After looking in several other
applications we think that
all the data types there can easily be represented
using S constructs
(i.e., arrays and lists together with attributes).
A short description of the DTD and an R package
with import/export
functions (we use this as reference
implementation) can be found at
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/R
and additionally at www.omegahat.org within a few
days. There is also a
writing only implementation for Gnumeric-0.48
available.
We are looking for people interested in such
fields and interested in
contributing implementations for other statistical
and data manipulation
programs like Excel, SAS, SPSS and others.
Regards,
Torsten Hothorn , [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
Friedrich Leisch, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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