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Re:Polars by ayhanfuat on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @04:48AM (#38924196)
> Unless you have a data.frame that is all numeric, but in that case one should probably be using a matrix in the first place.

They still have their advantages with row/column labels, NaN handling etc. These are not operations I am speculating about by the way. I am most familiar with pandas and the dataframe there has transpose, dot product operations and almost all column operations have their correspondence in rows (i.e. you either sum(axis=0) or sum(axis=1)).

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Re:Polars by kkoncevicius on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @06:03AM (#38924693)
Oh, based on the comment you replied to I thought this was about R. In R matrices can handle NaNs and NAs, have column and row labels, have dot products and much more.
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