Re: [R] Archive format

2017-04-10 Thread Joe Gain
n" An: R-help@r-project.org Cc: bwfdm-i...@lists.kit.edu Betreff: [R] Archive format Hello, we are collecting information on the subject of research data management in German on the webplatform: www.forschungsdaten.info One of the topics, which we are writing about, is how to *archive* data. Unfortun

Re: [R] Archive format

2017-04-08 Thread G . Maubach
with R and R Studio (https://www.amazon.com/Reproducible-Research-Studio-Second-Chapman/dp/1498715370) Kind regards Georg > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 um 10:44 Uhr > Von: "Joe Gain" > An: R-help@r-project.org > Cc: bwfdm-i...@lists.kit.edu > Betreff: [R] Archive

Re: [R] Archive format

2017-03-30 Thread Joe Gain
On 29.03.2017 17:36, Jeff Newmiller wrote: The relevance to R (and therefore R-help) of this question is marginal at best. R might not be the language of choice when you go retrieve the data. Also, this question seems dangerously close to a troll, because the obvious answer is that the data sh

Re: [R] Archive format

2017-03-29 Thread Jeff Newmiller
The relevance to R (and therefore R-help) of this question is marginal at best. R might not be the language of choice when you go retrieve the data. Also, this question seems dangerously close to a troll, because the obvious answer is that the data should be in an open format but if you are not

Re: [R] Archive format

2017-03-29 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
Dear Joe, I'd choose a plain text format. They can be read and parsed with a very wide range of software. That is IMHO a much more important factor for long term archivation that file size or the ease to read it with specific software. The choice between tab-delimited, comma separated values, XML

Re: [R] Archive format

2017-03-29 Thread Bert Gunter
Joe: 1. This may be the wrong forum for this question, as this list is about R programming issues. However, I don't know what the right forum should be. You might consider stats.stackexchange.com. Some IT forum might be better (but which???) 2. A google search on "data formats for archiving" (or

[R] Archive format

2017-03-29 Thread Joe Gain
Hello, we are collecting information on the subject of research data management in German on the webplatform: www.forschungsdaten.info One of the topics, which we are writing about, is how to *archive* data. Unfortunately, none of us in the project is an expert with respect to R and so I wo