Yea, when I do use R, I end up almost always doing the data manipulations in sqldf (creates a sqlite db on the fly). But I do love doing vectorized operations

Yea, when I do use R, I end up almost always doing the data manipulations in sqldf (creates a sqlite db on the fly). But I do love doing vectorized operations in pandas/numpy. Writing a quick function then calling it against an entire numpy array is kind of fun.