Caleb Hattingh wrote: > York > > Short answer: yes > Brilliant! and what are they?
> We use python and R at work, and in general you will find python syntax > a little cleaner for functionality they have in common. R is better > for some of the more hard-wired stats stuff, though. I love python. However, as a biologist, I like some high-levels functions in R. I don't want to spend my time on parse a data file. Then in my python script, I call R to read data file and write them into an MySQL table. If python can do this easily, I don't need R at all. Cheers, -York > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:04:37 +0200, York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> R language has very high-level IO functions, its read.table can read >> a total .csv file and recogonize the types of each column. >> write.table can do the reverse. >> >> R's MySQL interface has high-level functions, too, e.g. dbWriteTable >> can automatically build a MySQL table and write a table of R >> data into it. >> >> Is there any python packages do similar things? >> >> >> -York > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list