Ric For the dataframes equivalent, are you thinking of the more recent tibble structure in tidyverse? This is easier to understand than the original dataframes.
If so, this is a worthwhile addon for J. I worked on something similar recently. If you or anyone else is interested, we could collaborate at least on the design. Chris On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:21 AM Ric Sherlock <tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I've been thinking that a Dataframes equivalent in J would be useful. > Most things are already possible with J's arrays, but conceptually > DataFrames are well understood by many now, and they make it easy to work > with datasets as named fields. > I've spent a reasonable amount of time working with Pandas, but have > recently been using Polars (Rust backend with Python bindings) which really > shines for larger datasets. Performance (especially read/write) is awesome, > and the LazyFrames which optimise your query/analysis plan make a big > difference too. > I haven't taken enough time to explore it, but maybe Jd is the starting > point in this space for J? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
