[R] R and Python

[lgautier]

There appear to be win32 binaries for the the current release of rpy2.


L.




On Nov 4, 4:21 pm, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know the latest versions of neither RSpython norrpy2
> support Windows. For accessing SymPy (which is a python computer
> algebra system) from R rSymPy went with jython.  Its slower than
> cpython, particularly the startup, but it should work on all
> platforms.  See
>  http://rsympy.googlecode.com
> The latest version is 0.1-4.
>
> If ruby is an option see the rinruby project for accessing R from
> ruby.  There is a paper on it on jstatsoft.org .
>
> If java is an option see the RServe package for accessing R from java.
>  Also in the other direction the rJava package can be used to access
> java from R.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Ryan Sheftel <ryan.shef... at rmbaries.com> 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.
>
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