Hello! On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > > Esmail Bonakdarian wrote: >> >> I am just wondering if any of you are doing most of your scripting >> with Python instead of R's programming language and then calling >> the relevant R functions as needed? > > No, but if I wanted to do such a thing, I'd look at Sage: http://sagemath.org/
ah .. thanks for the pointer, I had not heard of Sage, I was just starting to look at SciPy. > It'll give you access to a lot more than just R. > >> Is there much of a performance hit either way? (as both are interpreted >> languages) > > Are you just asking, or do you have a particular execution time goal, which > if exceeded > would prevent doing this? I ask because I suspect it's the former, and fast > enough is fast > enough. I put together a large'ish R program last year, but I think I would be happier if I could code it in say Python - but I would rather not do that at the expense of execution time. Thanks again for telling me about Sage. Esmail ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.