On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:57:37PM -0500, Bruce Southey wrote: >> 2. Do we really need to build custom data structures (larry, pandas, >> tabular, etc.) or are structured ndarrays enough? (My conclusion is >> that we do need to, but others might disagree). If so, how much >> performance are we willing to trade for functionality? > > For this purpose, I like Fernando's data array: > http://github.com/fperez/datarray > A very simple subclass of ndarrays that answers my most-wanted feature in > terms of richer data structures. > > But, on the other hand, I have never really used R's advanced features, > so I may be missing something. > > My 2 cents, > > Gaël
I looks like datarray labels the axes. The data object in pandas and la, on the other hand, label the elements along each axis. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
