Sebastian Sauer

Thanks for the clarification. Is there a way to `rio::import` a CSV without knowing in advance what `format` is? Like: "Gimme a csv, don't tell me its format, I will...

Hi @ryapric, it appears that this auto detection does not work. Consider the following example where a "100.1" (as numeric) is saved in `csv2` format. `rio:import()` does not recknognize the...

I agree that this is not easy. Maybe a way could be to write a function `guess_deliminator()` that reads the first 1000 lines and counts commas and semicolons. Whatever is...

That's reasonable. Maybe I come up with a function such as `guess_format()`. But maybe it's not worth the fuss...

@fernfel: Thanks a lot! Your points are valid, but I'm a bit busy these days. I'll see what I can do.

The goal is to provide students with a "read to eat" format for their assigments/theses. No need to understand latex etc. The standard pandoc template is not suitable for academic...

A Markdown template looks much cleaner than a TeX template. Students like it simple. We should give them simple stuff. Besides, too mayn curly braces in LaTeX.

@vfulco Have you had a chance to test the yart template? I would be happy getting feedback on errors etc.

Hm, I cannot reproduce the error: ``` Installing package into ‘/Users/sebastiansaueruser/Rlibs’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) * installing *source* package ‘yart’ ... ** R ** inst ** byte-compile and prepare package...

Some quick googling showed potential solutions to the "tar" problem you encountered: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3907719/how-to-fix-tar-failed-to-set-default-locale-error http://www.janosgyerik.com/fixing-r-error-in-mac-os-x-tar-failed-to-set-default-locale/