datamash program

[Tim Chase]

I was going to recommend R, the first item referenced in the Stack
Overflow link that Shlomi posted. It does all manner of statistical
analysis and is pretty darn fast too.

-tim

On March 25, 2015, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi Jude [and all],
> 
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:37:28 -0400 (EDT)
> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's for command line users and you pass it tab delimited text
> > files and ask it to do statistical calculations on the contents
> > of those files.  I tried doing standard deviations with emacs and
> > org-mode and couldn't figure out how to make that happen so it's
> > nice that datamash works. 
> 
> There's also stdev by Tom Christiansen:
> 
> *
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9789806/command-line-utility-to-print-statistics-of-numbers-in-linux
> 
> *
> https://bitbucket.org/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/src/04cdfe5b0eee641885bd30fd5c891dd6dfb7f1d8/shlomif-settings/home-bin-executables/bin/stdev?at=default
> 
> > Command line users of linux on many distributions have been
> > restricted to sc or variants and teapot for spreadsheets and
> > those can't do this kind of work.  psql and mysql can't do
> > standard deviations either.
> 
> psql can:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-aggregate.html
> 
> See "stddev_samp" and "stddev_pop" .
> 
> > php may be a 
> > solution, but that involves learning another language.
> 
> PHP for command-line work? That sounds wrong (not that PHP is a
> good language even for writing server-side web code). Perhaps use
> Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, Awk, etc. or Something like R. I should
> note that I'm maintaining this Perl 5/CPAN module for some basic
> statistical calculations:
> 
> https://metacpan.org/release/Statistics-Descriptive
> 
> There are plenty of others like that for Perl and similar languages
> and learning a language like that is useful for many other
> use-cases.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
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