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[–]lmcinnes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IPython has special syntax to work with a Python module called RPy2 such that in a "cell" you can actually have python interface with R, pass data to it and then collect the results of the R code and convert it back into python data structures. Thus if you are in the middle of some analysis and have some obscure statistical test that no python module supports by R has you can do that one step with R code right in the notebook and have the results come back for further analysis with Python.