Multiple tables in one file

sjackman commented 8 years ago

To keep the metadata and the data together in one file so that they don't get separated, I'd like to keep multiple tables in one TSV file. See an example below. The function read_csvy_tables would return a file and return a list of data frames. How do you feel about this feature, and is it something you'd be interested in implementing, or would you accept a pull request?

Background: Over at https://github.com/jennybc/sanesheets/issues/3 we're discussing a tidy file format that provides some of the benefits of a spreadsheet without all the ick of a spreadsheet. For one, we'd like a plain text file format. One of the nice features of a spreadsheet is the ability to keep multiple related sheets in one file.

sanesheet.tsvy


---
name: sheet1

---
A   B
1   X
2   Y

---
name: sheet2

---
C   D   E
3   4   5

sjackman commented 8 years ago

cc @jennybc

leeper commented 8 years ago

I'd be open to a pull request.

sjackman commented 8 years ago

I don't have time in the near feature to implement this feature, so I'll close this issue. Thanks for your response, Thomas.

leeper / csvy

Multiple tables in one file #5

sanesheet.tsvy