[pymvpa] LARS and ENET classifiers broken on Debian etch (RPy issue)

[Michael Hanke]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:15:49PM +0100, Michael Hanke wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:48:57AM -0500, Per B. Sederberg wrote:
> > Hi all:
> > 
> > Melissa C. here at Princeton told me she has some C versions of the
> > code that we could use, and also mentioned some matlab versions, which
> > I subsequently found on the web.
> > 
> > As such, it should be pretty easy to implement both LARS and ENET
> > right in PyMVPA, like we did for SMLR.
> > 
> > I'll let folks know when I've made progress on this...
> 
> Great news!
> 
> I'd prefer C versions, since the RPy interface has had some issue in the
> past and the Debian packaging is always tightly related to the latest R
> version -- which makes it extremely difficult to backport.

As another thought: What about cython? Could be the way that leads to
the best maintainable interface (virtually independent of the current
Numpy API, at least AFAIK) -- but I never tried that personally...

Michael


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