Fri 2016-10-28 17:03:26 UTC+2, William:
> - Python stats have come a *LONG* way in the last 10 years, with > libraries like Pandas. Why use rpy2 when you can much more > effectively use pandas and statsmodels and so on. > > In my opinion, it would be way, way better to completely remove R from > Sage and instead do the following: > > 1. Include the R jupyter kernel config files. > > 2. Includes the modern Python stats libraries pandas and > statsmodels in Sage. > > Our time would be much better spent supporting 2 than 1. It's > ridiculous that we spend no effort on pandas/statsmodels, and all this > effort on R. That was a strategy that made sense 10 years ago, but > not today. > > For example, I recall that there are some issues involving pandas + > statsmodels + the sage preparser. We could put effort into > addressing those, like Robert Bradshaw did with numpy (which used to > be very unhappy with Sage integers, reals, etc.). Fixing this stuff > probably wouldn't be hard, and would make Sage a better environment > for stats. There may be similar remarks around machine learning, > where Python has really come into its own recently (e.g., see > tensorflow). > These issues with Sage integers were recently illustrated by this Ask Sage question: https://ask.sagemath.org/question/35270/sage-vs-python-integers-and-floats-in-pandas-matplotlib-etc/ If anyone knows how to fix that, it would be very appreciated. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
