Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R?

lightoverhead has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks:

I have a question regarding manipulating a matrix or data frame.

I know manipulating a matrix/data frame in R is pretty easy.

You can index it, subset it, aggregate it by certain categories, get the row/column number and names.

You can also apply function to each row or column.

If you know R, you may know the functions, such as:

subset

with

aggregate

transform

and etc

since, we generally need to apply statistic calculations on a subset of matrix/data frame;we may need some statistical functions/package associated to this package as well

In fact, I want a set of functions which are equivalent to those in R, does anyone know such a package?

Thank you

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Re: Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R? by educated_foo (Vicar) on Feb 07, 2012 at 22:00 UTC
PDL has most of these features, though it has its own idiosyncratic take (as do Matlab and R).	[reply]
Re: Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R? by ww (Archbishop) on Feb 07, 2012 at 22:14 UTC
Is there any chance one of these would help? http://search.cpan.org/~colink/Statistics-Descriptive-2.6/Descriptive.pm http://search.cpan.org/~gmpassos/Statistics-R-0.02/lib/Statistics/R.pm http://search.cpan.org/~cavanaugh/PDL-R-math-0.12/rmath.pd and if not one of those (or related prospects on CPAN) this may offer food for thought: http://daac.ornl.gov/MODIS/MODIS-menu/modis_webservice.html	[reply]
Re^2: Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R? by lightoverhead (Pilgrim) on Feb 08, 2012 at 18:15 UTC
thank you for your comprehensive list.	[reply]
Re: Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R? by perlStuck (Sexton) on Feb 07, 2012 at 21:48 UTC
Might want to try Math::Matrix. http://search.cpan.org/~ulpfr/Math-Matrix-0.5/Matrix.pm	[reply]
Re: Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R? by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 08, 2012 at 17:48 UTC
As someone else mentioned, PDL is the best data language for Perl. PDL has just released a new version , see PDL 2.4.10 and a new book, PDL Book I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re: Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R? by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Feb 08, 2012 at 17:03 UTC
If you feel comfortable with R, simply use it... `use Statistics::R;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Can someone suggest a package with functions of manipulating matrix or data frame as the functions were applied in R? by lightoverhead (Pilgrim) on Feb 08, 2012 at 18:20 UTC
The reason I use perl instead of R is that I try to implement a web application From perl to call R is tedious and slow;therefore,I try to solve all the calculations and plots in perl All the monks,above and below have suggested a variety of tools. I'll try to use them, especially PDL Thank you all	[reply]