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by baldfat 3820 days ago
Jupyter Notebooks (Formerly IPython Notebooks) http://jupyter.org/ is kernel agnostic and can work with all the other languages also. I use it for R and Python myself. (For data work I still prefer RStudio or Python's Rodeo)

Breaker uses the same jkernel as IPython and backend of Jupyter.
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spot 3820 days ago
that's right, but Jupyter notebooks have just one language each, they don't facilitate polyglot programming.
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captaindiego 3820 days ago
Their are some "cell magics" for running different languages in individual blocks in a Jupyter notebook. I gave it a try in passing with javascript a while back and I remember there was a way to share variables through as well.

You can see the available magics here: https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/3/interactive/magics.html#ce...

Unfortunately it looks like there is none for R or Julia, but perhaps they are installed by those specific packages, or their is some other way I don't know of.

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IndianAstronaut 3819 days ago
Cell magics are exactly what I was looking for. Much easier to do some data cleanup stuff in Python and move stats heavy stuff to R.
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baldfat 3819 days ago
RMagic for R and Python in Jupyter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StX_F_kq_C0
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IndianAstronaut 3818 days ago
Good video. One thing I am looking to do is call Python from an R notebook, but that doesn't seem to be happening with the magic functions.
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tianlins 3820 days ago
Jupyter notebooks do support multiple languages. However, sharing objects among the languages is a whole another thing.
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IndianAstronaut 3819 days ago
The sharing objects thing seems like it would be fraught with errors and mismatches. R has a fundamentally different structuring than Python. From factors to numerics, and vectors.
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spot 3819 days ago
R's "everything is a vector" approach does introduce a wrinkle but not hard to work with once you expect it: https://pub.beakernotebook.com/#/publications/560b5722-f287-...

If you can find an error in our implementation I would be happy to hear about it (ideally file an issue on github).

I am not an expert in R and I don't expect autotranslation to cover every case, but I think what we have is useful, and I look forward to continuing to improve it based on community feedback.

Thanks, -Scott

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IndianAstronaut 3818 days ago
I'll give this another look. Was hoping for somethings in the Jupyter notebook that didn't materialize.
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