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Python Data Analysis
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Python Data Analysis

by Ivan Idris
October 2014
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
6h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing rpy2

The R programming language is popular among statisticians. It is written in C and Fortran and is available under the GNU General Public License. R has support for modeling, statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, visualization, and clustering. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) and other repository websites offer thousands of R packages for various tasks.

Note

Download R from http://www.r-project.org/.

The latest R version as of August 2014 was 3.1.1. The rpy2 package facilitates interfacing with R from Python. Install rpy2 as follows with pip:

$ pip install rpy2
$ pip freeze|grep rpy2
rpy2==2.4.2

Note

If you already have rpy2 installed, follow the instructions on http://rpy.sourceforge.net/rpy2/doc-dev/html/overview.html ...

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ISBN: 9781783553358