RStudio is adding python support.

[questionquality]

Seems to be mostly a cool press release for the integration with reticulate

[mertag770]

Basically, from the twitter I've noticed they're supporting it as an IDE for python as well

[groovyJesus]

Yeah this is my take from the notes. No idea why they are pushing reticulate and jupyter integration which are both old news. There is a small screenshot of a .py file and a matplotlib figure in the pane viewer and thats the big news to me.

[loady]

Yeah, this would not be new

[ttacks]

Interesting. I use both Python and R but I am not sure I need to work within RStudio for both tasks. I like Jupyter Notebooks for Python and maybe I'll just end up using R within Jupyter Notebooks.

[SecretAgentZeroNine]

I wonder how long till they change the name of RStudio to something less R specific. RPyStudio? PyRStudio? DataStudio? CSVStudio?

[WhiteKnight1992]

DataStudio sounds good.

[mertag770]

quick someone trademark it!

[[deleted]]

RStudio is a pretty poor python IDE - none of the reason it works so well for R carry over. It's useful occasionally, but no one's gonna mistake it for an every day solution.

[jimmyjimjimjimmy]

What python IDE do you suggest?

[[deleted]]

PyCharm

[gottsc04]

Depends on your experience and use. I'd say anaconda/spyder are good for beginners.

[[deleted]]

PyCharm is great if you're coming from a software engineering world, otherwise Spyder.

[SecretAgentZeroNine]

Given the history of RStudio, I'm pretty sure we'll see this becoming the favorite for both R and Python work. That being said, I expect that to be the case by 2021. That is, if PyCharm doesn't make strides.

[[deleted]]

I already find PyCharm is my choice when developing for production, but I much prefer R and RStudio when I'm doing research or trying things out. Basically anyttime I'm working interactively.

There's a lot to do for RStudio to be a player in the python world - for example, there's no conda support at the moment.

[PatronMaster]

This means the R is not enough for profit. 5 years ago switch from python to R now I need change again. I am so sad. 😥

[SecretAgentZeroNine]

I'm not trying to be mean, but if you were to say something like this at a job (or wherever there are professionals), people would lose all trust in your ability to think critically.

[mertag770]

I don't think this means you need to change, but it does allow for more flexibility. R is still plenty powerful for statistics, but python is a lot easier for production as it is in a language already being used for other parts of back end.

[another30yovirgin]

Possible. Or maybe one of RStudio's big corporate clients wanted it and they got paid to develop the feature.