I am a long time user of "R" for statistical analysis and find it an extremely useful environment for data exploration. That said I may be adding and/or moving to Python for more of my work and wanted to know if people had any recommendations.
My work is primarily financial time series analysis. In R this means extensive use of "zoo" and "xts". I see from searching that there is a time-series package for Python called pytseries (http:// pytseries.sourceforge.net/) that looks closest to adding the time series capabilities to Python. My question is to people who have used zoo and xts in R, what has their experience been with Python? Would you recommend using native Python to do time series analysis, or rPy to link back to R for analysis? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
