On Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:50:07 PM UTC, Volker Braun wrote: > > ... but there is very little that we currently can do to replace R > functionality. Having said that, there is a serious lack of statistics in > Sage. >
In my personal experience the pandas package [1] is capable of doing most of the statistics and data analysis I have to deal with, particularly when boosted with statsmodels [2]. It would also be much easier to integrate them with the rest of the sage components, as pandas and statsmodels are built on top of numpy/scipy. Performance-wise pandas blows R out of the water (even without any pexpect/rpy/py2 interfacing), particularly when it comes to IO and large datasets. The only feature from R I miss in pandas is ggplot, but that is coming to python as well [3] and might very well be superseded by bokeh [4] in a near future. I have no strong feelings either for or against dumping R, but if we want to boost statistics in sage in a pythonic way, I believe pandas/statsmodels is the way to go. Cheers, J [1] http://pandas.pydata.org/ [2] http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/ [3] http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/ggplot-for-python.html [4] http://bokeh.pydata.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
