Recent blog on this kind of issue: http://www.r-bloggers.com/the-homogenization-of-scientific-computing-or-why-python-is-steadily-eating-other-languages-lunch/
On 22 November 2013 14:16, Javier López Peña <vengor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 coming to python as well [3] and might very well be superseded by bokeh [4] 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. > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- 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.
