On 12/02/2010 10:33 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:> This is getting OT, but, please, no XML. It's entirely useless in this > context IMHO (as it is in others, but that's another story) and we already > have reliable support for storing R objects (more than one in fact). Despite > the fact that some used to claim human readability of XML in practice it > turns out to be false, so I don't see any real benefits of XML in this > context. Yes, I agree. Originally I was hoping to have a nice human-and-computer readable config.ini file: [options] contrasts = structure(list(contrasts = structure(c("contr.treatment", "contr.poly" ), .Names = c("unordered", "ordered"))), .Names = "contrasts") but the lack of an ini parser in R made me think "heck, let's do it in something we do have a parser for...". maybe I should use JSON? Yeah, we have a parser and that's what all the hipster web 3.0 kids are using these days....
We have read.dcf() if you want human and machine readable. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
