Index is a data structure like a hash table that maps column names to column 
indices. It's defined in DataFrames.

 -- John

On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:38 AM, Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm currently trying to work out why I get an error when trying to load a 
> dict with several dataframes in it with HDF5, JLD, see 
> https://github.com/timholy/HDF5.jl/issues/158
> 
> which results in this error:
> ERROR: stored type DataFrames.Index does not match currently loaded type
> 
> I just wanted to reach out to the dataframes crowd: I don't actually know 
> what DataFrames.Index is or does. In the issue I filed a small example with 2 
> dataframes works fine, so I'm trying to narrow my case down somehow. I know 
> that the DataFrame constructor is
> 
> type DataFrame <: AbstractDataFrame
> columns::Vector{Any}
> colindex::Index
> 
> Is "Index" a julia type or is it defined somewhere in dataframes? how could I 
> check where a certain type is defined?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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