"RStudio is to be commended for developing the reticulate package, to serve as a bridge between Python and R. It's an outstanding effort, and works well for pur

"RStudio is to be commended for developing the reticulate package, to serve as a bridge between Python and R. It's an outstanding effort, and works well for pure computation. But as far as I can tell, it does not solve the knotty problems that arise in Python, e.g. virtual environments and the like." I'm not sure I follow this, you can just set the interpreter. I've started using rMarkdown more heavily, with reticulate & python for most data munging and r for plotting. Partly because I already know how to solve the problems I have in python more quickly than in R. The only thing I have against it at the moment is the debugging story isn't very nice by default, though I've not looked into how to improve this. edit - if you've not looked into rmarkdown, I heartily recommend it. It is to me what the final output of notebooks should be. I can easily interleave code and descriptions, hide what I want, run it from scratch entirely as a default, and produce a range of outputs including interactive static webpages. Once web packaging is finally sorted, it'll be near perfect.