R vs Python for simple interactive data analysis

Post by wildanimal » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 10:44 AM UTC

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I entirely agree though my personal preference is for lattice over ggplot as it is faster and more flexible at the present time (the "limitations" of ggplot reflect the preference of the creator; e.g. not being able to have two axes for the same plot). But reshape and also plyr are quite useful. R does have surprising capability for shell scripting and text processing, albeit slower than Python. I also use Python for…

I've built the equivalent to most of the plyr and reshape/reshape2 packages inside pandas ( http://pandas.sourceforge.net , note I am in the midst of overhauling the documentation for the upcoming release). I plan to write a decent amount of side-by-side code comparisons, should definitely be useful for folks with R experience wishing to use Python for data analysis / statistics. Feedback from savvier R users than my…

Post by hadley » Tue, Aug 30, 2011, 2:18 AM UTC

wesm wrote: post #8

wildanimal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I entirely agree though my personal preference is for lattice over ggplot as it is faster and more flexible at the present time (the "limitations" of ggplot reflect the preference of the creator; e.g. not being able to have two axes for the same plot). But reshape and also plyr are quite useful. R does have surprising capability for shell scripting and text processing, albeit slower than Python. I also use Python for…

I've built the equivalent to most of the plyr and reshape/reshape2 packages inside pandas ( http://pandas.sourceforge.net , note I am in the midst of overhauling the documentation for the upcoming release). I plan to write a decent amount of side-by-side code comparisons, should definitely be useful for folks with R experience wishing to use Python for data analysis / statistics. Feedback from savvier R users than my…