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How pandas solves statistical problems or the thousand utility functions that are missing? Please, explain.

• jnbiche 10y ago
  Have you even looked at pandas? I get the impression you haven't. Pandas has most of the statistical utility functions that R does, and for those few that it lacks, Python/Pandas also has available an easy-to-use FFI interface to R via rpy2. Take a look: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/ http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/ EDIT: Specified name of interface (rpy2).
  • cwyers 10y ago
    > Pandas has most of the statistical utility functions that R does Pandas is not shipping with most of the stuff you can get on CRAN.
  • blahi 10y ago
    Have you even looked at statistics? I get the impression you haven't. Pandas has aggregation and that's it. I don't really like to start those language wars, but what the heck. Your precious pandas is actually worse than the R alternatives in every way. It is slower than data.table while having comparable syntax. Dplyr is comparable in speed while having WAY better syntax.