Since you listed R among the other languages, I guess that you're interested in statistical functions too. If not, discard the rest of this email :-)
I'm working now on the statistical functions of the GSL: mean, variance, standard deviation, etc. Those functions are not based on the GSL vector/matrix interface, so that module will not depend on any other Raku module. The functions provided by the library accept arrays in every native data type[¹] available in Raku (int8, uint8, int16, … num32, num64). If you're planning to use the fastest approach available, I can split the module and publish the raw interface separately from the higher level one, so you'll be able to use NativeCall internally and have the minimal set of external code. [¹] libgsl has different functions for each data type. On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 1:42 AM Aureliano Guedes <guedes.aureli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to learn Raku deep enough to build a data structure. I have > experience with Perl5, Python, R, and even C/C++, then I get boring > feelings to learn something new from the beginning. Also, I prefer learning > a new language by applying f to something. > > Since I work with data analysis and data science, I'd like to try to > develop a data structure to dataframe in pure Raku. And if I do a basic but > useful thing capable to load a field delimited file (as CSV or TSV) into a > dataframe, I'll transform in a package and upload it to GitHub to > comparatively enhance the package. > What I need is suggestions for how do I start it. > - How I define a data structure: an array of arrays? > - Given the raku itself (and maybe some already existing packages) what > the structures and functions I may use. > > I got these ideas to start: > > The dataframe should support columns name to be called as: > > df.column1 > > and it should return a list of values on this column. > Also, when it read the delim file it should check each column type. > > > All suggestions are welcome. > > > > -- > Aureliano Guedes > skype: aureliano.guedes > contato: (11) 94292-6110 > whatsapp +5511942926110 > -- Fernando Santagata
