Re: New importdata function testing

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>
>> On 22 October 2012 12:34, Philip Nienhuis<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>
>>> Well, if mixed data processing is needed (as it seems, looking at
>>> importdata.m) I'd again suggest to look at moving csv2cell, cell2csv,
>>> csvexplode and csvconcat from the io package to core. They are C++, can
>>> process mixed data well and are fairly reasonably commented.
>>
>> [snip]
>>>
>>> So, all the basic building blocks are present.
>>
>>
>> Neat. I may work on this myself. The reason I was so quick to accept
>> importdata into core to begin with is that I have some code at work
>> that's using it, and I would also like to address this embarrassment
>> in Octave:
>>
>>
>> http://abandonmatlab.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/matlab-cant-read-plain-text-data-out-of-a-wet-paper-bag/
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions. I may start looking at the IO package soon.
>
>
> Reading that article/blog, where it says:
> "One of the very useful features of R is that you can assign names almost
> everywhere you would use an index"
> I immediately thought of the dataframe package. But alas, importdata() is
> not so cool, it just returns a rectangular numeric matrix :-(
>
> As to IO package, I have a new release (1.2.0) lying around for some time
> but couldn't yet commit the underlying changes (svn issues).
> TTBOMK the relevant stuff for importdata.m hasn't been touched in that new
> release.
>
> Philip

Regarding the svn issue, have you tried
svn checkout --username=<your-sourceforge-username>
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/octave/code/trunk/octave-forge/

That is svn over http should ask for more than your password.