Forum:A Handy Interface Bridging Python And R

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[Medhat]

in a previous post I asked this question Will python take the place of R? and the answers was very helpful and promising. today I found this topic A Handy Interface Bridging Python and R which is very helpful so I brought and I think any person uses python should know it, as it is very helpful,in conclusion I think any bioinformatician should know a heavy weight programming language "c , c++ or Java" and R and Python :)

[SimonD]

I don't understand this python-hype. Why do you need it anyways if there is perl?

[Gjain]

I am a big fan of R and Perl but lately I feel that Python = Perl + R ... esp when you deal with big data

[Medhat]

i agree specially with the addition of more liberay to python that deal with or do the job of R

[Medhat]

i think you should read this When to choose python over perl (and vice versa)? but any way i believe that if you know any language you can do what ever you want for me am using java in the first place any thing that perl or python do java can do it much faster as you know and also it is will formed oop language but coding in java for small tasks get more time than perl and python so i think you should know either perl or python for these tasks but python is much easier that is all