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7 Missing Functionality ¶

Tablicious is based on Matlab’s table and date/time APIs and supports some of their major functionality. But not all of it is implemented yet. The missing parts are currently:

• File I/O like readtable() and writetable()
• summary() categorical
• Assignment to table variables using .-indexing
• timetable
• POSIX time zone support for years outside the IANA time zone database coverage
• Week-of-year (ISO calendar) calculations
• Various 'ConvertFrom' forms for datetime and duration constructors
• Support for LDML formatting for datetime
• Various functions:
  • between
  • caldiff
  • dateshift
  • week
• isdst, isweekend
• calendarDuration.split
• duration.Format support
• Moving window methods in fillmissing
• UTCOffset and DSTOffset fields in the output of timezones()
• Plotting support
• Things omitted for compatibility:
  • ismissing function

A global ismissing function is intentionally omitted from Tablicious to avoid conflict with the Octave Forge statistics package. ismissing methods for various classes in Tablicious are defined. Tablicious also supplies an isnanny function with behavior similar to ismissing for clients which which wish to have ismissing-like behavior using a dependency only on Tablicious.

It is the author’s hope that many of these will be implemented some day.

These areas of missing functionality are tracked on the Tablicious issue tracker at https://github.com/apjanke/octave-tablicious/issues and https://github.com/users/apjanke/projects/3.