On 11/30/12 5:02 AM, Harald Schilly wrote:
On Thursday, November 29, 2012 4:35:08 PM UTC+1, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
Unfortunately, I've never been that impressed with pexpect.
Just for the record, over here in the "Python world", we already have
rpy2. Here is a link to the introduction of the latest stable version:
http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-2.2/html/introduction.html
This is, in my eyes, just the best we can have. It's an independent
module, you can use it from all other python tools (-> convergence
effect), and although a bit confusing at the beginning, it is a nice
abstraction (R is different than Python, there will always be some limits).
We should also mention that there is significant progress in Python-land
as well. For example, look at Wes McKinney's pandas package:
http://pandas.pydata.org/
which takes a lot of lessons learned from R's dataframes and improves on
them (see http://pandas.pydata.org/#why-not-r). Pandas also supports an
interface to transfer data back and forth with R
(http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/r_interface.html). Also,
the statsmodel package deserves mention:
http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/.
Thanks,
Jason
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