Re: [Tutor] Data frame packages

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Hunter
I appreciate all the responses and apologize for not being more detailed. An R data frame is a tightly grouped array of vectors of the same length. Each vector is all the same datatype, I believe, but you can read all types of data into the same variable. The benefit is being able to quickly subset

Re: [Tutor] Data frame packages

2011-03-31 Thread James Reynolds
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Blockheads Oi Oi wrote: > On 31/03/2011 09:38, Ben Hunter wrote: > >> Is anybody out there familiar with data frame modules for python that >> will allow me to read a CSV in a similar way that R does? pydataframe >> and DataFrame have both befuddled me. One requir

Re: [Tutor] Data frame packages

2011-03-31 Thread Blockheads Oi Oi
On 31/03/2011 09:38, Ben Hunter wrote: Is anybody out there familiar with data frame modules for python that will allow me to read a CSV in a similar way that R does? pydataframe and DataFrame have both befuddled me. One requires a special stripe of R that I don't think is available on windows an

Re: [Tutor] Data frame packages

2011-03-31 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Ben Hunter wrote: Is anybody out there familiar with data frame modules for python that will allow me to read a CSV in a similar way that R does? pydataframe and DataFrame have both befuddled me. One requires a special stripe of R that I don't think is available on windows and the other is either

[Tutor] Data frame packages

2011-03-31 Thread Ben Hunter
Is anybody out there familiar with data frame modules for python that will allow me to read a CSV in a similar way that R does? pydataframe and DataFrame have both befuddled me. One requires a special stripe of R that I don't think is available on windows and the other is either very buggy or I've