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Note that the following ports are not strict dependencies but are highly
recommended to get the most out of pandas. Install them as needed.

Library		Port origin		Purpose
-------		-----------		-------
boto		devel/py-boto		access Amazon S3
pytables	devel/py-tables		necessary for HDF5-based storage
bottleneck	math/py-bottleneck	accelerate certain NaN evals
matplotlib	math/py-matplotlib	plotting
numexpr		math/py-numexpr		accelerate certain numerical ops
statsmodels	math/py-statsmodels	enables parts of pandas.stats
scipy		science/py-scipy	misc. statistical functions
openpyxl	textproc/py-openpyxl	Excel 2007+ I/O
xlrd		textproc/py-xlrd	Excel input
xlwt		textproc/py-xlwt	Excel output

To use the HTML table parsing capabilities that were introduced in
pandas 0.12.0, you will need to install

beautifulsoup	www/py-beautifulsoup

and one or the other or both of

html5lib	www/py-html5lib
lxml		devel/py-lxml

Please read the pandas documentation before deciding:

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/gotchas.html#html-gotchas
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