I'm not familiar with R, but on the Python side, aside from the already-mentioned excellent Jupyter Notebook, you might also be interested in checking out Spyde

I'm not familiar with R, but on the Python side, aside from the already-mentioned excellent Jupyter Notebook, you might also be interested in checking out Spyder, which is more of a dedicated IDE. Download/screenshots: https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder Docs: http://pythonhosted.org/spyder/ http://pythonhosted.org/spyder/ EDIT: If you're on Windows, check out the Anaconda python distribution. I'm told it makes installing all the libraries you mentioned as easy as it is on *nix systems: https://www.continuum.io/downloads https://www.continuum.io/downloads