biocore/scikit-bio — pull request #306 by ElBrogrammer (2014-05-06 23:55:37+00:00)
Title: Add pandas DataFrame support to distance-based stats

Can now supply a grouping vector (as before) or a ``pandas.DataFrame`` and a column name to denote the grouping of objects. This makes interaction with the distance-based statistical methods more convenient in some cases (e.g., if you have a QIIME mapping file loaded as a data frame).

This pull request makes pandas an skbio dependency.