Hello ! > * As a language, Python is vastly superior to R. Python has good > support for object oriented programming, a very wide selection of > existing programs and libraries, and supports threads for handling > realtime data. I recently read a paper about massive contortions > somebody went through in trying to be build some system in R to model > and respond to realtime data -- this was really hard in R, since R > evidently doesn't have good support for threads. But of course, R + > Sage (via rpy2) would make it easy to combine the modeling power of R > with the asynchronous capabilities of Python.
Just a few words on that one... I have had to stand statistics for one year at the university, and I really ate R from morning till evening... Even though I have forgotten almost all of it, there are still two things for which R is vastly superior to python : matrices and plots. This does not make it a better language than python, that's perfectly True, but to anyone who would like to rewrite in Sage some code written in R, this would mean a HUGE amount of work. The manipulation of matrices in R is just amazing. If you want to strip all the negative values contained in a matrix M, you but have to write M * (M > 0). How easier can it et ? There is a thousand tricks like that available in R that I noticed nowhere else. And the same goes for plottings using R. I mean that on these two points, the R language is much more expressive than any other I know. But then again, this could also mean that I haven't spent the necessary time to learn Sage's tricks on these points :-) Nathann -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
