Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:54:11 +0400
From: Aleksey Khudyakov <alexey.skladnoy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Mathematics and Statistics libraries
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On 25.03.2012 14:52, Tom Doris wrote:
> Hi Heinrich,

And of course data visualization. Only library I know of is Chart[1] but
I don't like API much.

There is the plot[1] library which provides for updateable plots from GHCi REPL and has a gnuplot-like interface.  I wrote it for this very reason, a mathematics/statistics development environment.

It uses Data.Vector.Storable, which provides for compatability with both statistics and hmatrix packages (as well as hstatistics).

I think talking about data frames is a bit pointless unless we specify
what is data frame. Basically there are two representations of tabular
data structure: array of tuples or tuple of arrays. If you want first go
for Data.Vector.Vector YourData. If you want second you'll probably end
up with some HList-like data structure to hold arrays.

Matrices from hmatrix are easily converted to rows or columns of Data.Vector.Storable and can be sliced and otherwise manipulated.


[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/plot

Vivian