R bindings for Xapian: API modifications

James Aylett james-xapian at tartarus.org
Mon May 2 17:34:48 BST 2016


On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 08:32:54PM +0530, Amanda Jayanetti wrote:

> dbpath: Path to a xapian database
> datapath: Path to a data source

Hi Amanda. A couple of questions:

Is there a reason you're using a stored CSV rather than doing it from
a data frame directly? That would avoid having to read from a foreign
format, write to CSV and then read again in order to index it.

Also, do R users expect to use numeric indexing into their data, or
name indexing? Or would it be better to support both?

J

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