very high-level IO functions?
Caleb Hattingh
caleb1 at telkomsa.net
Mon Sep 19 14:16:01 EDT 2005
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
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