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5 Oct
2018
5 Oct
'18
12:24 p.m.
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:07:27 +0200
Hans Hagen
I want to fill it in with numbers that r reads from a csv file and processes. Can you give an example? Do you only need R for reading the csv?
The processing is done by R. Of course, it *could* be done in Lua, but this all depends on what processing is needed, for R contains many libraries of routines (but so *can* lua). For the list, this discussion between Hans and myself follows a presentation that I made at the last ConTeXt Meeting regarding handling large data files in lua (+MetaPost). We are presently working on an article for the Context Journal to document this. Alan P.S. Lua is rather magical...