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Analyser and R for IOS
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For the R fans out there, think of Analyser as a batch processor. I found that using Textastic and Files improves the experience. Of course, when I started using R (S, actually) it was Emacs and the CLI, so it wasn't that big of a stretch for me. It's not interactive (see ?interactive).
Also R runs lots of helper programs and uses .so files profusely, which Apple forbids. so it is a cut down version.
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Pythonista doesn't have pandas. Even you asked many times. The author doesn't care about users. Just a toy not a tool.
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@lpl your negotiation skills seem to be somewhat lacking. Do you think your <Flames> will help or hinder the case for including pandas
FYI: THERE ARE AN EVER GROWING NUMBER OF USERS WHO LOVE PYTHONISTA
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@adrius42 So did he ever give us the answer to the question? More and more people sent the same request. NO ANSWER. Did you try to talk to other developers? I sent emails to other developer and he could write back within 6 hours. And for omz? Maybe within 6 months.
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It had been answered many times -- @omz has said he had no plans to implement scipy or pandas in the near future:
https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/1488/pandas-on-pythonista/22?page=2
https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/2544/wish-list-for-next-release/95#
There are more that I remember. The basic gist is that he has never said it will absolutely never happen, but also said he is not planning it in the near term, or commit to a date because it may or may not work out.
If I needed to use scipy/pandas on my iPad today, I would be using sagecell to run my work in the cloud. Not quite as convienent, but the wrench script works and makes it somewhat transparent. Any other promises or intentions are not going to help you today, and whining about it won't get it implemented sooner.
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@JonB "Pandas is more likely to happen (again, no promises!)." 3 YEARS AGO....
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And Analyser and R for IOS already supported numpy,s.cipy,pandas,statsmodels,scikit-leary/image,nilearn,astroML,pymc,nipy many years ago. So I really don't know what is omz doing now. Maybe ui or other GREATER features instead of the modules in python even lots of people keep asking?
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Analyzer and Juno are two apps that advertise support for scipy/pandas and the like. If that is a priority for you, I'd suggest you invest in one of those apps.
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@JonB So even other apps already added them to their apps. And omz still said difficult/will try. And you, almost as an admin in this forum, just said, it's ok, at least it still can be used?
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@JonB You really think Pythonista is a toy instead of a Productivity right?
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Do you consider pythonista a toy? I don't
I just don't think pythonista offers pandas today.If you actually wanted to use pandas, today, you would be using Matteo's excellent sagecell options.
Or, you should check out https://develobile.com/pyto/
Or Juno or Analyzer.
Or the other python app
Those apps offer what you are after. Pythonista currently doesn't.
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@JonB https://github.com/holzschu/python3_ios/issues/2 lol.
I mean, I really don't understand why a user, would just feel satisified to this. The author can't make it even all other authors made it already. You would not push the app to move up, but enjoy staying in the warm bed, right?
Isn't pandas a tool which has been used by many projects? And so much many people want pandas in ipad, too. And the author just said difficult/will try for years? And you said it is ok? Such a nice user, just reported bugs, never asked for a feature, and never said no. -
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I find the personal attacks inappropriate and unprofessional. The facts and alternatives have been clearly stated in this thread. If Pythonista does not have the features that you require, then adopt the alternatives but please avoid insults and do not ridicule the hard work of others.
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Fully agree with @ccc
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To all of you, if I want a feature, I would say like this, this app is wonderful and the author has added some great features to it, but I noticed that something is missed and I hope you can support this in the future.
And the author said, I will add this in few months/few days. Or I wouldn't add it because of some reasons.
And many people would keep asking why not and show that other apps already added this and it is not very hard. And many people are enjoying this feature.
And the author said nothing, nothing. NOTHING.
And admins said, if you use this, accept the fact that the author didn't care about you at all. Or just shut up.
So many people compromised. But not me.
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The author disappeared for many months and this app has not been updated for ONE YEAR. Did you ask anything? Did you feel worried about this app and author? Did you try to communicate with the author? Did you? ADMINS?
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There are no admins here, just folks that like to help out others, and enjoy this app.
Your $10 bought a fully functional app that provided what it promised. You, and others have out their vote in for pandas. The developer has made it clear it is not really a priority for him at this time. He has suggested he might, one day, get to it, without any commitment or time frame.
Based on the thread with hundreds of replies, do you think continuing to beat the dead horse is likely to change that?
Development on this app tends to come in spurts, once a year maybe (usually a few beta versions per year), so holding out hope that the next update will have your desires filled is fruitless.
So, from a pragmatic perspective, if pandas on iOS is actually important to you, today, your options are:
- use one of the other iOS apps that currently support it.
- get a developer account, and use the pythonista XCode template, or the open source pyti app, and roll your own personal version, for free.
- use sagecell from within pythonista, for free
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@lpl Hi, in my opinion (my opinion tries always to be in favor of democracy) it is better if Pythonista is not so powerful, because otherwise there would be very little chances for other developers. In this way other people can develop apps that try to be closer to users needs (let's say that this creates a good and lively market).
The main vocation of Pythonista is not to be a scientific tool (we all understood it), but an advanced IDE with a lot of features.
omz, the developer is very perfectionist in the things he does (it is my idea) and I suppose he uses a lot of time to plan very well all his development ideas about his app. In other words, I think that to add a c based python library to Pythonista is not so difficult for him, but it is not the main target in his idea about Pythonista and, also, adding c libraries in Pythonista would inevitably give the developer extra responsibility for keeping these libraries up-to-date (it is not to be taken for granted that the updated version of a c-based python library can be easily compiled like the previous one).
The best thing for now could be to install different python IDEs available on Apple Store (everyone has to decide his/her budget: 3$, 15$, 300$, ...) that perform different and specific tasks, and even better if all these apps/IDEs can access to user's iCloud folder, in your device you could run what you want with the IDE that best meets your needs.
If you don't want to install other python apps/IDEs, try to develop something about the sage interface in order to allow user to use pandas in Pythonista console using the remote server but in a way that is as if pandas were really installed in Pythonista, I mean, in order to be able to execute in console each pandas command with any argument and each single pandas command returns the output in console.
I would be grateful to you, because I do not know where to start doing something like that.
Example of session in Pythonista console with pandas available in sage remote server:
>>> data = pandas.read_csv("mydata.csv") ## here Pythonista sends the pandas command to server with the argument (automatically, the argument 'mydata.csv' is obviously in Pythonista folder, in this case it is in main Documents folder, but you could add relative path for other files) and wait for answer in order to save in data the output >>> data.head() ## here Pythonista print data content