Stream: helpdesk (published)

Topic: Data table with non-symbolic column names


view this post on Zulip Evan Patterson (Sep 26 2021 at 05:34):

Is there a package providing a columnar data table, preferably Tables.jl-compliant, that supports column names which are not symbols or strings? I'd like a data table whose columns are indexed by tuples, say a symbol-integer pair.

view this post on Zulip Mason Protter (Sep 26 2021 at 06:04):

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view this post on Zulip Eric Hanson (Sep 26 2021 at 08:54):

Tables.jl’s interface is to allow integer or symbol access to columns: https://tables.juliadata.org/dev/#Tables.AbstractColumns

So if you want it to be Tables.jl-compliant, I think it would need symbol names too.

view this post on Zulip Evan Patterson (Sep 27 2021 at 00:07):

Good point. In that case, I'd still be interested in a package with this feature, even if not (completely) Tables.jl-compliant.


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