R and Python
Not only RSPython does not support Windows, but it won't compile on most Unix platforms and fixing it may be more time than writing a package on your own. Like the other post, I use Python for pre-processing and then load into R. If you need text processing with line by line access you can also use Java, which will communicate to R. cheers Stephen
Ryan Sheftel-2 wrote:
I am a long time user of R for financial time series analysis (xts, zoo, etc) and for my next project I am thinking of adding the Python language to the mix. The reason for adding Python is primarily its non-statistical capabilities. So my questions are what have people's experiences been with using interop between R and Python. I see there are two items, rPy and RSPython. It looks like rPy makes it possible to call R code from Python, and RSPython goes both ways. My needs would be to use Python to drive R to get it's extensive time series and stats, and also to get to Python objects from inside R. I searched the list archives and it looks like many people use rPy, but what about RSPython for calling Python from R? It looks like rPy only goes from R into Python, and RSPython has not been updated since 2005? Other messages in the archives state that RSPython only works on Unix? Would I be foolish to build anything mission critical on RSPython? Is there a better way to get at Python from R? Thanks as always. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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