Alex F. Bokov, Ph.D.

> I've been thinking about this. The first step is really a cross-walk to show how attribute names vary across file formats. Something like: > Attribute Stata SPSS SAS >...

Proposed standard for import methods: > When writing new methods, where practical, the following format is recommended: .import.rio_SUFFIX In the above template, `SUFFIX` is replaced by the file extension for...

@leeper , should I submit a PR on `CONTRIBUTING.md`?

What I think would be nice is if among the meta-data snooping functions there was one that listed tables/sheets/etc. It would return names if available, numbers otherwise. For formats that...

I agree about starting with simple/flat file types and not necessarily supporting all types. But what you think about the idea of following what seems to be the overall philosophy...

Working my way toward `try_import()`, first I'm submitting PRs for additional helper functions like `isfiletext()` in #239. Those will permit `try_import()` to be smarter about which import functions are tried...

> `col_select` in haven's reader functions is a quoted argument and shouldn’t be evaluated early Actually, both the haven functions and the `dplyr::select()` method to which their documentation refers permit...

We could just advise users to enclose the `col_select` argument in quotes or wrap it in `quote()` in the help file... would that address the problem?

> I'm watching a series of related issues and PRs here re: `...`. > > The tidyverse/r-lib packages are using the [ellipsis](https://ellipsis.r-lib.org) package for similar functionality, in case that holds...

> So this is related to #132. Yes, and also #245. Actually have some code in a branch for that.