I am using DataFrames function `readtable` to get my data out of CSV files.
The column are heterogenous but most sensible things like names, dates and
currency values (with dollar signs) . All of these are getting parsed into
strings. But I would like the currencies to parse into a fixed point type
(and maybe the dates into integers or a date type). Can anyone point me to
some module(s) extending the functionality of `readtable` to get parsing of
currency? Of dates? I read the bit of docs
here:
http://dataframesjl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/io.html#advanced-options-for-reading-csv-files
but didn't see anything that would help with my problem.
