4 ms·
I like R, it's more fun to write in than, say, Matlab. But it is unbelievably slow and has very little support for web-based projects. I'm reading "Python for D
by 11001 14y ago
I like R, it's more fun to write in than, say, Matlab. But it is unbelievably slow and has very little support for web-based projects. I'm reading "Python for Data Analysis" right now, and I'm pretty sure the book is converting me. Pandas' DataFrame includes R's data.frame's functionality as a strict subset, and that's enough for me to switch. I still might need to use rpy2 for awhile for certain packages though.
- minimax 14y agoI started using data.table [1] as a replacement for data.frame recently and it's hugely improved my productivity in R. On the web front, the Shiny [2] project has a emerged as a possibility for quickly building web frontends for analysis projects in R. 1. http://datatable.r-forge.r-project.org/ http://datatable.r-forge.r-project.org/ 2. http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/ http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/
- dagw 14y agoIf you like data.table, but use python, take a look a pytables.