[BioRuby] Ruby & R

[Joel Dudley]

Ra,

I work mainly with expression data, and what I do is use Ruby for as  
much as I can, then use RSRuby to call the key R functions I need. You  
are right, it is not comfortable to work in R at all, but it's hard to  
deny the wealth of packages it has for working with expression and  
genotyping data. Of course it is up to people like you and me to add  
this kind of functionality to BioRuby if we can manage it.  
Unfortunately I can't seem to find the time.

-- Joel

On Mar 13, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Raoul JP Bonnal wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I have always worked on sequences and bioruby gave me everything I  
> need to work with that kind of data.
> Now I moved to Illumina gene expression and rtpcr data, I think  
> there is a lack of support in this kind of data. Isn't it ?
> I found that usually this data are handled by R, but which are the  
> pro/cons of this lang ? And as "lang/syntax"... it's not very  
> confortable I think :-(
>
> Pjotr is providing support for biolib to Ruby.
>
> Could Ruby do it better ?
>
> I mean, Python/Ruby/Perl seems that depends on the end user, they  
> can do the same things but for R ?
>
> --
> Ra
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