Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing environment for the JVM

Posted by lars512 on Friday February 17, 2012 @05:50AM
from the github.com dept.

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by amouat on Friday February 17, 2012 @07:55AM (#3603107)

Why link to github rather than the project webpage?

http://incanter.org/

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by benatkin on Friday February 17, 2012 @11:46AM (#3603935)

The GitHub page is currently a much better introduction to Incanter than the web page.

Also most HNers are familiar with GitHub and since Incanter makes good use of its features, it would be hard to make incanter.org a better resource for people just getting started.

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by amouat on Friday February 17, 2012 @02:13PM (#3604576)

This might have been a better page to choose then: https://github.com/liebke/incanter/wiki#getstarted

I get a bit put-off when the first thing I see on a project website is a source tree, unless that's what I was expecting.

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by benatkin on Friday February 17, 2012 @06:37PM (#3605454)

They use GitHub to the max so I'm guessing they actually like GitHub. I've heard people who like GitHub complain about other code hosting sites not having a source tree on the project website. Never heard an avid GitHubber complain about the source tree on the project website. So I'm guessing that it suits their aesthetic just fine.

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by etrain on Friday February 17, 2012 @10:23AM (#3603600)

Looks like they've got a pretty healthy base library set up, but I'd be curious if anyone's seen a thorough comparison of R and Incanter. Googling isn't much help.

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by alexott on Friday February 17, 2012 @11:22AM (#3603843)

There is also RIncanter (https://github.com/jolby/rincanter). From project's page: "Rincanter is a Clojure and Incanter wrapper around the Rosuda JRIEngine Java/R bridge. The hope is to allow easy access to an embedded R engine from Incanter. It also offers translation between Clojure and Incanter datatypes and R datatypes such as R dataframe to Incanter dataset."

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by AliCollins on Friday February 17, 2012 @06:28AM (#3602944)

Is there anyone who is using Incanter in a production environment as yet?

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by francoisdevlin on Friday February 17, 2012 @08:51AM (#3603246)

I believe that the Flight caster guys were using it, yes. It's one of the more mature libraries in the Clojure ecosystem.

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by alsocasey on Friday February 17, 2012 @01:47PM (#3604476)

Speaking of which, whatever happened to the Infer library those guys released? Seems to have disappeared off github.

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by mahrz on Friday February 17, 2012 @06:38AM (#3602959)

Looks quite interesting. Is there any way to export incanter charts as TikZ based figures to include them in LateX documents?

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Re:Incanter: Clojure-based, R-like statistical computing env... by alexott on Friday February 17, 2012 @11:35AM (#3603899)

currently there is no such support in Incanter. Chars are implemented via JFreeChart that can export to JPEG & PNG out of box, although it's possible to export charts to other formats, such as PDF and Incanter supports it out of box with incanter.pdf/save-pdf function (http://data-sorcery.org/2010/02/05/pdf-charts/)

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