This post on R Views is about… Python! Surprising, I know. Python has several well-written packages for statistics and data science, but CRAN, R’s central repository, contains thousands of packages implementing sophisticated statistical algorithms that have been field-tested over many years. Thanks to the rpy2 package, Pythonistas can take advantage of the great work already done by the R community. The rpy2 provides an interface that allows you to run R in Python processes. Users can move between languages and use the best of both programming languages.
Below, I walk you …