Another model to think about here is K's implementation, where the symbol table is a tree, and thus supports contexts which do not have equal length columns.
-- Raul On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:54 PM Ric Sherlock <tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > otoh, we already have a binding to R where you can deal > > with dataframes easily – do we want to “compete” here, too? > > > > In terms of whether to just adopt/use one of R's/Pandas'/Polars'/Julia's > dataframes rather than reinventing the wheel - I think for me that if it > were possible to use J primitives to interact with the dataframe directly, > that would be really compelling. If that were possible with a binding to an > external implementation, then I'm all for it. If not then I think it is > still worth discussing J native dataframes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
