Ok,
I guess this package is not for me. It does not seem to be meant to be
running on Windows 7.
As I look at the errors more closely as I am posting this, I see your
package calls HTTPClient. Can someone tell em whether that package is
Windows 7 compatible?
julia> using UCIMLRepo
julia> UCIRepoData("iris")
fetching from the following url :
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning
-databases/iris/iris.data
ERROR: error compiling get: error compiling setup_easy_handle: could not
load mo
dule libcurl: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
in get at C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\HTTPClient\src\HTTPC.jl:519
julia>
UCIRepoData("http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iri
s/iris.data",false)
fetching from the following url :
http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning
-databases/iris/iris.data
ERROR: error compiling get: could not load module libcurl: %1 is not a
valid Win
32 application.
in get at C:\Users\Jacques\.julia\HTTPClient\src\HTTPC.jl:519
On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:50:58 AM UTC-4, Siddhant Jain wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I have written a small package that allows for easy access and download
> for datasets from UCI ML repository from within Julia into a DataFrame.
>
> Please have a look at it here: https://github.com/siddhantjain/UCIMLRepo
> and give your feedback.
> this is my first package so code can contain bad practice. I am looking at
> other packages to get a sense of coding guidelines.
>
> I am interested in working for Julia in GSOC on the project 'Standardised
> Dataset Packaging' and figured that writing a small package like this one
> will help me get a better feel for writing packages for Julia. As the
> deadline is just a couple of days away, I will start working on the
> application as soon as possible and give it to potential mentors for a
> review before the final submission.
>
> Could you someone please direct to me possible mentors? That way I can
> discuss my application with just them and not flood the mailing list with
> content that doesn't concern everyone.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Siddhant Jain
> Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
> India
>
>
> P.S: If you are using a pre-release version (0.3 and above) of Julia, you
> might encounter a HUGE set of warnings. I am trying to figure out the
> reasons behind that. Will file a bug in due time if I am not able to solve
> the issue.
> However, these warning do not affect the working of the functions in
> package.
>
>
