If you are starting from scratch, that may be true. But there are
many, many stats folks out there with code, lectures, textbooks, etc.
written for R. The vast majority will not switch to something else
unless there is some back-compatability.
-Marshall Hampton
On May 3, 12:51 pm, Nick Alexander <ncale...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hamptonio <hampto...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Hi,
>
> > Although I don't use it myself, I think that incorporating R will be a
> > huge boost to SAGE, and so I have been trying to get R and rpy working
> > on OS X.
>
> I don't doubt that incorporating R would be nice, but AFAICT the
> advantage to using R is its very nice slicing syntax. Providing such
> flexible operators in Python is probably possible, so I'd like to
> suggest that first efforts be focused on slicing.
>
> Nick
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