dat

[christophergandrud]

Do any of you have experience with dat?

I've been trying to think about how this might relate to psData. Overall, they aim to address similar issues, with psData being a bit more focused on one type of data and usage from R.

I wonder if it is worth exploring using dat as a backend, or some other integration.

[antagomir]

dat looks very promising and certainly closely related but no experience so far; but psData may fill its particular niche for R/paneldata better, I think there is a genuine need for good tools on that.

[christophergandrud]

I think that is probably right that psData fills a particular niche.

Just thinking if there is anything to learn or even directly draw on. I especially like the data version control for third party data. Anyways, something to think about.