[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60138] [octave forge] (dataframe) `dataframe` incorrectly parses csv entries containing commas inside quotes

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60138 (project octave):

FR, @comment #1:
The original author of csv2ell (& cell2csv and others) is Laurent Mazet. I did
extend his work somewhat to cope with e.g., Excel-style ranges etc. and to
keep it running in the io package.
csv2cell is a life-saver sometimes. At work with Matlab, reading large
mixed-type csv files is extremely slow using importdata and textscan and often
needs lots of postprocessing. csv2cell loads the same very large csv files in
a jiffy and its output only needs minor polishing.

[OT]
I tend to agree with Tasos' musings about languages in general although I'm
afraid Octave's niche is (very) slowly declining (or other languages simply
grow faster). Too bad as especially during the last years the project has
attracted several talented and active developers.
IMO a big plus of Octave (and Matlab) is that it offers a structured computing
environment. E.g., for Python I found there's often a plethora of several
incompatible packages for each job; not handy if at a late stage one gets
stuck because at the start a less optimal choice was made.
As to R: does that support OOP? (It's used extensively at my work but I'm not
very familiar with it).


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