Thomas J. Leeper

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I've wanted to support DDI (briefly mentioned it here: https://github.com/leeper/rio/issues/12) but don't have the ambition to write a full DDI package. It's unfortunately too complex to bootstrap and there don't...

I think the main issue with DDI is there's not a low-level library that implements it fully so anyone who wants to use it has to start from scratch (see,...

Thanks. I'll investigate that. Historically, data.table did not support that AFAIK and I'm pretty conservative on adding new features until they're stable in underlying packages. qs is mentioned as a...

This is already supported, you just need to specify `format`. Default is "US-style" CSV but you can "Euro-style" CSV with either of: ```R > str(rio::import("mtcars2.csv", format = "csv2")$hp) num [1:32]...

I don't have time to look into this in detail at the moment, but the challenge here is really a format ambiguity issue. Comma-style and semicolon-style CSVs are ultimately two...

My inclination is not to do that, given that `fread()` (which is what rio is ultimately using for the import) is all about speed. Feels a bit awkward to read...

The problem with exporting to .zip is not reproducible for me. I would guess you do not have a zip tool installed on your system. See `? utils::zip` for more...

I'm going to reopen as a reminder to work on writing multiple files to zip/tar. Thanks again.