You should be able to wrap the string in an IOBuffer, which satisfies the general IO interface.
e.g. io = IOBuffer(csv) readtable(io) -Jacob On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:28 AM, jw3126 <jw3...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a string which is secretly a csv like > """ > 1, 7.6 > 2, 45.6 > 3, 12.1 > ... > """ > > I want to turn it into a data frame. I guess I have to use readtable > <http://dataframesjl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/io.html#importing-data-from-tabular-data-files>, > however readtable accepts only IOStreams (or strings that are filepaths) > and I don't know how to feed the string in a sane way to it. >