Package: fathom 0.0.1

fathom: Look Before You Parse

One small vocabulary for seeing what is in a JSON document and getting a table out of it, spelled the same way in R and in Python. You point it at a document you have never seen and it reports whether the file is sound, what shapes it holds, and what one row could be, with every candidate priced. Output is proportional to the structure rather than to the data, so a 912 MB file and a 12 KB file produce descriptions of similar size. The package is a thin wrapper around the 'fathom' engine, which it invokes as a subprocess; the engine is compiled and bundled at install time, so an installed copy is self-contained and needs nothing else.

Authors:psychometrician [aut, cre]