[HN Gopher] Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R
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       Formatted spreadsheets can still work in R
        
       Author : sebg
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2024-05-17 01:58 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | minroot wrote:
       | Since this is about R, can anyone please tell me how to get the
       | following package - https://docs.tibco.com/pub/enterprise-
       | runtime-for-R/6.1.1/do...
        
         | j_bum wrote:
         | I recognize the majority of those datasets as being included in
         | the base `datasets` package. Are there differences you're
         | looking for?
        
           | minroot wrote:
           | Yeah, where is lottery
        
             | calpaterson wrote:
             | I even installed S-PLUS 8.0 in order to look for this - but
             | Sdatasets doesn't seem to have been shipped in the base
             | install. If anyone knows...
        
         | wodenokoto wrote:
         | My guess is you buy it from Tibco. It sounds like it is part of
         | their enterprise R distribution.
         | 
         | Do you have reason to believe it is open-source/free ?
        
       | rmnclmnt wrote:
       | Great to see people trying to ingest such humanly crafted horror
       | data.
       | 
       | However, whenever I encounter this with a customer, I'll take the
       | challenge, show how much a burden it is to manage and how much
       | more it will cost in the long run to maintain in the event the
       | tiny bit of metadata would change inadvertently.
       | 
       | Usually, the customer is listening then for some guidance on how
       | to (not) format spreadsheets and use them as clean db tables.
       | 
       | Then you got clean data easily ingestible. And the customer knows
       | a thing or two about data management. Win-win for everyone.
        
         | jgalt212 wrote:
         | When you can exercise some influence over customer behavior, I
         | agree this is the best way forward.
        
       | ano-ther wrote:
       | I know a few champions of marking data with colors instead of
       | using a new column. But this one tops it all :-)
       | 
       | > Using text color (and nothing else) to indicate units.
       | (Example: black in pounds, green in kilograms).
        
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