Pandas Dataframe or similar in C#.NET

Question

I am currently working on implement the C# version of a Gurobi linear program model that was earlier built in Python. I have a number of CSV files from which I was importing the data and creating pandas dataframes, and I was fetching columns from those dataframes to create variables that I was using in my Linear Program. The python code for creating the variables using dataframes is as follows:

dataPath = "C:/Users/XYZ/Desktop/LinearProgramming/TestData" routeData = pd.DataFrame.from_csv(os.path.join(dataPath, "DirectLink.csv"), index_col=None) #Creating 3 Python-dictionaries from Python Multi-Dict using column names and keeping RouteID as the key routeID, transportCost, routeType = multidict({x[0]:[x[1],x[2]] for x in routeData[['RouteID', 'TransportCost','RouteType']].values})  

Example: If the csv structure is as follows:

RouteID  RouteEfficiency  TransportCost  RouteType   1           0.8              2.00          F   2           0.9              5.00          D   3           0.7              6.00          R   4           0.6              3.00          T      

The 3 variables should be: RouteID: 1 2 3 4

TransportCost:

1:2.00 2:5.00 3:6.00 4:3.00 

RouteType:

1:F 2:D 3:R 4:T 

Now, I want to create a C# version of the above code that does the same task, but I learnt that C# doesn't support dataframes. I tried looking for a few alternatives, but am unable to find anything. Please help me with this.

Answer 1

Deedle is a .Net library that handles DataFrames.

http://bluemountaincapital.github.io/Deedle/index.html

Answer 2

New kid on the block

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/an-introduction-to-dataframe/

Announced today, still in preview, Microsoft's own take on a DataFrame :)