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 At an mature development stage. [http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/extra/dicom/ octave-forge svn]
-*Maintainer: Pascal Dupuis [http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=1760416contact]
+*Maintainer: Pascal Dupuis
 *Contributors:
 *Package: http://octave.sourceforge.net/dataframe/
-Auto-generated docs from the current package: {{Forge|dataframe}}
+This package permits to handle complex (both in the sense of complex numbers and high complexity) data as if they were ordinary arrays, except that each column MAY possess a different type. It also complete a fairly complete interface to CSV files, permitting to cope with a number of oddities, like f.i. CSV files starting with a header spread over a few lines. The resulting array tries as far as it can to mimick an array, in such a way that binary operators and usual functions will work as expected.
+Meta-information is also handled. Rows and columns may have a name, and this name is searchable. If for whatever reason the ordering of a CSV file changes, searching by column names will return the expected information.