Re: [R] Archive format

2017-04-10 Thread Joe Gain
Hi Georg, On 08.04.2017 09:04, g.maub...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Joe, I have read your question with great interest. I am a little bit astonished to read about your project. There is a big national institute in Germany called GESIS (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GESIS_%E2%80%93_Leibniz-Institut_f%

Re: [R] Archive format

2017-04-08 Thread G . Maubach
Hi Joe, I have read your question with great interest. I am a little bit astonished to read about your project. There is a big national institute in Germany called GESIS (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GESIS_%E2%80%93_Leibniz-Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sozialwissenschaften) which does the same job you a

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