very high-level IO functions?

[Caleb Hattingh]

York

Short answer: yes

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.

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:04:37 +0200, York <yorklee70 at gmail.com> 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