Of note--while Rmarkdown's python support used to be pretty bad, the most recent Rstudio uses the package reticulate behind the scenes, and it works really well

Of note--while Rmarkdown's python support used to be pretty bad, the most recent Rstudio uses the package reticulate behind the scenes, and it works really well! It's easy to share data between the R and python session, and calling python from R, or R from python is straightforward.