> [stuff about SAS CARDS statement, I think]
> > INPUT survey $ 1-2 seasonal $ 3 state $ 4-5 area $ 6-10 supersector
$
> > 11-12 @13 industry $8. datatype $ 21-22 year period $ value footnote
$ ;
> ...
> This just seems like horrendously bad practice, which is one reason
> it's kludgy in R. If it was good practice, someone would surely have
> written a way to do it neatly.
>
> Keep your data in data files, and your functions in .R function
> files. You'll thank me later.
Actually, it's really helpful to be able to do this when you're writing
unit tests. I've spent a fair bit of time writing R code to create
dataframes of artificial data to this end. There's more than one way to
do it, sure, they're all kludgey.
cur
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