Life Is Short, Use Python | (R news & tutorials)

Life Is Short, Use Python | (R news & tutorials)

Welcome! Here you will find daily news and tutorials about R, contributed by over 555 bloggers. There are many ways to follow us - November 24, 2010 Life is short, use Python I started to play with Python two weeks ago due to the limitation of R in terms of handling large data, then a friend of mine suggested me to try Python since I had to do data massage frequently, "Python is the best choice, trust me", he said. Although I was unwilling to learn another new software, I couldn't bear with the low efficiency of R (or of my work) for large data. You may realize my learning curve as: Excellent free CSV splitter --> MySQL+RMySQL package --> Several R packages including bigmemory and ff . But to be honest, none of them satisfies me either because of the limitation of the method (slow + malfunction) or of my own computer (short of memory). I am shocked by python's extreme power and easy-to-use design after nearly two weeks, dealing with a 10GB CSV had never become so easy.

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