Frankie Robertson

See https://github.com/cihai/cihai/pull/131

Another use case here. pypi does not have any way multiple packages can "provide" the same resource. It is not uncommon on pypi to have the same package packages in...

It is nice for abstractions to have escape hatches for when they break down. Take for example Django's ORM, which --- at least in the early days --- as a...

I think you already know that I don't have any resources to offer. Incidentally it's long-tail projects including those that have never received any funding which would benefit most from...

Okay. I do not currently have any intention of implementing this myself. Consider this issue as merely a note of a caveat at the moment. One wrinkle I will point...

Partially addresses https://github.com/JuliaStats/RDatasets.jl/issues/47#issuecomment-445564130 and https://github.com/JuliaStats/RDatasets.jl/issues/127 which both mention wanting further instruction on how to add a dataset.

There are surely different approaches. It would 100% be possible to replace or supplement this package with one that lazily downloads data from CRAN. The advantage to packaging in the...

I have made a minimal initial version of the lazy downloader at https://github.com/frankier/RDataGet.jl I haven't yet registered the package. Is there interest in transferring this to JuliaStats (keeping me as...

> My preference as a very light user would be that the top [n] datasets covering the most common datasets used (e.g. penguins, iris, etc) are included. And that the...

> It's unfortunate that this makes RDatasets inherently unreproducible since you can't know what version of a data set was used. It's not exactly unreproducible. In the current version of...