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

[Per B. Sederberg]

Totally!  cython was exactly the way I wanted to do it :)   I've been
looking for a good excuse to fiddle with it.

P

On 2/21/09, Michael Hanke <michael.hanke at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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