On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > rpy2-2.1.x will be dropping the "__array_struct__" way to export array > information from R arrays to numpy arrays, and use instead the new > buffer protocol in Python. > > This likely means that all numpy-related features in rpy2 will only be > supported with Python >= 2.6 and numpy >= 1.3, but this also means that > wizardry like "views" on vectors and arrays (that is an object is a > "view" on larger array or vector, without a copy of the subset of data > made) is getting possible.
No objection to this, but views work just fine with the old __array_struct__ way too, so I find your description confusing :-). Can you elaborate on what cool new features we'll see as a result of this? -- Nathaniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
