OK. It seems that a clear consensus exists for the excision of R _proprio dictu_ from Sage.
If we break it, can we at least keep the (Sage's) pieces ? An optional package offering the current R interface(s) depending on a systemwide(at least user-reachable) version of R and the R library might offer the functionality without entailing the (not so trivial) work of maintaining our own R port. Do you have an idea of the amount of work involved ? And how to, do it ? The rpy2 part is probably easy, but I expect surprises on the pexpec(t) front (at least if we want to keep compatibility with existing code using current R interface facilities...). Any hint on the right starting point(s) would be welcome... BTW : I have also had a (quite superficial) look at what pandas and statsmodel claim to do. They (and scikit-learn, which look interesting, and stan, already available from Python) might be indeed useful for run-of-the-mill descriptive analysis and regression models (and Stan for more exotic modeling). Packaging them for Sage might prove useful. However, those 9000+ R packages are here for a reason : if some of them (a small minority, IMHO) are obvious PhD-earning byproducts, others aim to solve difficult (if specialized) problems, badly solved (or not even considered) by the aforementioned trio. keeping a way to reach them from Sage might be important. Hence my plea for an "R interface(s)" package. Another (IMHO futile) reason for keeping an R interface in our arsenal is "name recognition" : quoting R in a "Materials and methods" section no longer raises questions from reviewers ; somehow, I doubt that pandas and statmodels get the same answer... What can you add ? Can someone propose a work plan ? -- Emmanuel Charpentier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
