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by MrMattWright 3303 days ago
This is absolutely terrific! I often work with csv or tsv and large data, and I just want to quickly look at it without loading excel or exporting to google sheets. https://atom.io/packages/tablr Tablr for Atom is good too. One feature request. I very often get data in JSON format (then convert to csv), it would be amazing to also support JSON. Thanks for sharing.
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OpenRefine http://openrefine.org/ for years has been my go to tool when looking at csv or tsv. I really love this project.

> OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

Oh thanks for reminding me, I did look at that a while ago, it's absolutely great. The transforming steps are amazing. Time to have another look at it. Exploratory.io is similar (nice transformation steps using dplyr) but for me it was just a bit too close to actually writing the R code.
I LOVE writing code for R for scraping. I am actually serious. The Hadleyverse and the package tiddyverse have changed my programming life (Well learning Racket helped a ton also since there is Lisp in the foundations of R)
+1 Instead of "can I import X", please allow import preprocessor to import any kind of data. People can write customer pre-processor script. ( sometime for sanity check ).