Question

I need to make computations in a python program, and I would prefer to make some of them in R. Is it possible to embed R code in python ?

Answer 1

You should take a look at rpy (link to documentation here).

This allows you to do:

from rpy import *

And then you can use the object called r to do computations just like you would do in R.

Here is an example extracted from the doc:

>>> from rpy import *
>>>
>>> degrees = 4
>>> grid = r.seq(0, 10, length=100)
>>> values = [r.dchisq(x, degrees) for x in grid]
>>> r.par(ann=0)
>>> r.plot(grid, values, type=’lines’)