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Re:Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers by sremani on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @10:29AM (#7597972)
I am a novice in F# and pretty much have no idea about R, but what I can see here is that World Bank Type provider is providing the OP with the data.
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Re:Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers by minimaxir on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @11:18AM (#7598298)
Correct in this case, but you could use a simple CSV to get World Bank data as well.
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Re:Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers by tonyabell on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @12:50PM (#7598868)
The benefit of using a Type Provider over an CSV is it provides a strongly typed api to the data. Which gives you tooling (IntelliSense) and makes it hard to impossible to have type errors.
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Re:Creating maps using R, Deedle and F# type providers by nightski on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @04:02PM (#7600224)
Type providers are available for CSV files also...
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