[SciPy-dev] about data sets

[Johann Cohen-Tanugi]

hello,
well I apologize in advance for jumping ahead, this email can anyway 
always be set aside for later....
I just had the opportunity to use loadtxt today and looked for the 
docstring with the marathon in mind. And of course it is a non working 
example as the data file that it is supposed to load does not exist.... 
I noticed some time ago that David Cournapeau (I think) had started a 
discussion about this at http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/DataSets 
.... I agree with him that loadable datasets in R are a big plus of this 
software.
I guess that in principle I could create a buffer to read back with 
loadtxt in the example, but given the long term goals of this doc 
marathon, I thought that it might be useful to raise this issue right 
away....

best,
Johann