> I would be in favor of keeping R > > Since I might not have been clear on this. I'm +1 on keeping R, even > though it is not up to date. It's in my eyes very good, that "%r" and > "R worksheet mode" work out of the box. > > I am constantly encountering this in discussions with other users. ask.sagemath has many questions about it, I love that the Sage cell supports it (there was a fascinating blog post about embedding R a year or so ago), ... it would be very, very unfortunate if we were to drop support for this. Even given the annoyance, this is a foundational piece of Sage because it provides huge functionality that we don't have. The comparison with Octave is not as relevant, because we have most (all?) of the functionality of Octave with built-ins or Numpy et al., and secondly because we have supported this for a long time and users would consider it a significant regression. After all, optional packages are even less likely to be updated than standard ones.
(Which, inter alia, I have been able to use in research because Sage could compute some stuff more easily than R, but R was the *only* source for a specific algorithm I needed to use on the things I computed.) > OT: > There are (additionally to R, not as a replacement), more and more > libraries in the Python ecosystem which cover R tasks: pandas, > statsmodels, scikit-learn, ... > I could envision to have an experimental/optional spkg, that collects > all of them. It could be named something like "statistics..." or > "data-analysis...." and installs all of them. > > That is a very good idea, though I guess one could also use the sage -ipython line to install them via pip or something, right? - kcrisman -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
