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What has pandas borrowed from R, other than a 2D data structure with heterogeneously-typed columns? I guess the data frame merge invocations are similar. (I k
by Myrmornis 14y ago
What has pandas borrowed from R, other than a 2D data structure with heterogeneously-typed columns?
I guess the data frame merge invocations are similar.
(I know patsy/statsmodels are introducing R's formula syntax to python, but that's not pandas.)
- hadley 14y agoThe split-apply-combine framework dealing with group by tasks (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/paper http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/paper, not that there aren't other precedents) for one. But generally, Wes has used R to figure out what people want to do, and then ported an elegant interface to python.