Re: Introducing the rcsvw R library

> On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Davide Ceolin <d.ceolin@vu.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hello WG,
> 
> I'd like to introduce the R implementation that I'm developing (rcsvw):
> 
> https://github.com/davideceolin/rcsvw <https://github.com/davideceolin/rcsvw>
> 
> The library relies on a custom version of the rrdf and rrdflibs libraries which I developed and I maintain here (basically this version adds some functionalities like blank node creation and manipulation, and updates to jena 3.0.0):
> 
> https://github.com/davideceolin/rrdf/tree/new_functionalities <https://github.com/davideceolin/rrdf/tree/new_functionalities>
> 
> Installing the rrdf library could be troublesome, especially because of the rJava library it depends on. I document the steps needed to fix the installation on OSX 10.10 and 10.11 in the README. I would be happy to make any addition to those installation notes (e.g., about other OS's).
> 
> I designed the tests using the testthat library. At the moment, it passes only 12 of them (6 for the csv2json function, 6 for csv2rdf). However, given that I should have overcome the most annoying hurdles, I do optimistically hope to progress quickly from now on (both in terms of functionalities and of beautifying the code).

Great Davide! Great to have another implementation. Do your tests make use of the CSVW test suite? [1]

Gregg

[1] http://w3c.github.io/csvw/tests/

> A paper about this is coming along. Any feedback is more than welcome, of course.
> Best,
> 
> Davide