[tanyaM]

I am using R to analyse and document (knitr and latex) epidemiologic data which does not involve parsing a lot of text to extract my analysis data set. Data preparation for this type of research involves more combining data from different source tables, restructuring repeated measures, etc. I only know how to do that using R. Can Python be incorporated into the knitr literate programming framework and is it worth learning another language?

[yihui]

Python will be better supported in knitr in future; for now it only has preliminary support: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/engines/