[Gretl-devel] Re: mread possible enhancement
Am 19.05.2019 um 19:13 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
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> Hmm, interesting idea. I think this could be made to work quite
> nicely. Internally, nothing prevents us from creating a new, temporary
> "hidden" dataset (then turning it into a matrix) without disturbing
> the existing dataset or absence of dataset.
This would be very nice of course, but in that case I would imagine the
job would be less straightforward than it seems, because of the
intrinsic differences between the eventual aims.
Given that we have a function for reading a matrix from a file (mread) I
think the natural aim should be to extend that function eventually to
read from csv. Either with a new option or perhaps simply by recognizing
a ".csv" file extension.
(I'm speaking purely from a user's point of view here.)
But if that isn't feasible in the short term, maybe a transitory
function in "extra" could indeed be the solution.
cheers
sven