On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Jeff Hamann <jeff.d.ham...@gmail.com>wrote:
> R Developers, > > I cannot seem to find an R package that can read/write iCalendar (RFC2445) > files. > > I have found the libical library at sourceforge. I've used it briefly so it > may be what I need, but again no R interface. I may have to connect the dots > myself. > > I'm guessing this might be useful for someone other than myself (scrubbing > files, performing temporal analysis on events, etc). > > Since I need to perform these tasks, I will probably do it using R if I can > get away with it. > > Can anyone provide some basic advice for me? A list object of entries? The > original data will be coming from an SQL table/view result. > > Is there any interest in helping with funding such a small project? > > Small project? The python icalendar package is about 3000 lines of code, plus tests. ical is quite a complex format with all sorts of functionalities. The chances are that if your ical files come from a simple source and don't use all the complications of ical format then you can write an ad-hoc parser that just strips out the event time (or whatever) you need. If you still *do* want to write a full iCalendar reader/parser, the python package might be a good place to start and look for ideas. Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
