I’ve been dabbling in data analysis in Racket for the last few months, and one thing that’s become immediately obvious is that we don’t have a nice notion of a “table”.
I believe that the natural notion of a “table” here is more or less the same in R and in databases: A table consists of a set of column names, and a set of tuples with values for each of those columns. After building my own and messing with it for a while, I basically rewrote it as a front-end to sqlite3. So, for instance, you can create a table by writing (make-table ‘(student qtr score) ‘((“janice” 2152 32.4) (“franklin” 2164 29.9) (“zongthar” 2174 9999.9)) … and then query it in a variety of useful ways. 1) has anyone else already built and released this, and I just couldn’t find it in pkgs? 2) Is it worth building the functional-skinned interface, or is it easier just to write lots of SQL code? John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
