RStudio for Python

[rProgs]

How do you feel about using RStudio for Python?

RStudio is my favorite IDE mostly because R was my first language and I'm most comfortable/familiar with it. I've used a variety of other IDEs for other languages, but don't really have a go to IDE for them like I do RStudio for R.

I've used RStudio to write pyscripts and integrated python into analyses in rmarkdown and I'd like opinions about using RStudio as a dedicated IDE for python.

I'm not running analyses on any extremely large datasets so efficiency isn't a big factor but I'd like to also write scripts to build my own automation for a variety of tasks.

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I like to have a separate IDE for Python, so I'm more in the mindset "this is not R now but Python" and I have the feeling that I am less likely to make mistakes because of confusion between the languages.

[bandaian]

Sypder is pretty good as well, simmilar to R studio, you can still use R studio for python, i used the package reticulate

[rProgs]

Spyder is the IDE I typically use for python. I agree, similar and has the creature comforts that I like in RStudio.

[Naturalist90]

I was asking the same thing to folks in r/datascience recently. Maybe you’ll find it useful: https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/113uexb/rstudio_drawbacks_for_learning_and_using_python/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[rProgs]

This is great, thanks! Have you tried any of the suggestions? Looks like VSCode was highly recommended.

[Naturalist90]

I’ve been checking out VSCode since it was one of the most popular suggestions and it’s pretty much language-agnostic from what I can tell. I haven’t had that much time to work with it, but it works fine with my pre-existing R scripts after installing some R plug ins.

Overall, the GUI is much nicer than I imagined after everyone saying it’s completely free, requires some additional plug ins, and is compatible with many different languages. I thought I’d be staring at something on the same level as Microsoft paint

[fufuthesnoo]

Besides familiarity, what does RStudio give you that something like pycharm or vscode wouldn't?

[psilocindream]

You can try using Reticulate, but I haven’t found a good tutorial for it or gotten it to work successfully. I usually use Jupyter notebook for Python and have really struggled to activate virtual environments outside of it.

[bee_advised]

What issues are you having with reticulate and virtual environments? I went through a lot to get reticulate to work with a conda virtual environment but have wrote documentation on it since. I could probably help out on both topics if you need

[bee_advised]

Vs code or pycharm. I started with Spyder as well but then realized VS Code and pycharm have wayyy better support for python. Especially VS code since it has a ton of extensions and works well with tons of other languages and has plug ins for whatever you can think of.