Datasets

1. Datasets
   • Creating a Dataset
   • Editing a dataset

Creating a Dataset

To import a dataset, add content of type dataset at /node/add/dataset. Four choices exist for creating a dataset with various options depending on the choice. The simplest is choosing an empty dataset; this creates a node with a Slickgrid editor owned by the current user. The second choice is to upload a file. Site administrators may choose the upload size and the types of files allowed to be uploaded. Currently supported formats are CSV, TSV, space delimited, and newline delimited. Users may also choose to copy and paste the dataset into a textarea or just opt to have a dataset of random numbers generated.

If correctly configured, when clicking 'Submit', the browser will be redirected to the dataset View page, looking something like the image depicted below. If R has thrown an error while reading the dataset, the browser will be redirected to the previous page, with a banner. Warning messages are displayed with a yellow background and error messages are displayed in red. If an error has been thrown, the form will be reset.

Editing a dataset

Once the dataset has been created, click the "Edit" button to proceed to the data sheet editor.

This brings up an Excel like spreadsheet where the end-user can modify dataset values. Users can also mark datasets as Private as on this page. Marking data as private only allows administrators and dataset owners to view the data. This setting can be modified on the Drupal permissions page.