R and Python Unite!

TheBigShort

TheBigShort

Hi everyone,

I know there are a few Python Programmers here and a few R coders. Mid last year R Studio released a beta version of "Reticulate" which allows for integration between Python and R. The package has been released on CRAN and it is very exciting to say the least.

Both programs at their heart are based on C++. This is what Reticulate uses to communicate between the 2 languages. As much as I love R, Pyhton is much better working with MongoDB which is the reason why I am starting to use it. Maybe some of you will find it useful as well!!!

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reticulate/reticulate.pdf
https://rstudio.github.io/reticulate/index.html
https://resources.rstudio.com/webinars/r-rstudio-1-2-amp-python-a-love-story-sean-lopp
 
Big python fan here, use it exclusively for my work with pytorch and tensorflow. I never liked R at all, many packages I came across contain errors and are very poorly peer reviewed, especially financial math related packages. That R over the past years was bestowed with links to C/C++, C#, now python only shows that it never was a good research language to stand on its own. Only since datastructures via C/C++ ports were introduced did it get faster. I remember when R was single threaded, 32bit and as slow as a crawl.

TheBigShort said:
Hi everyone,

I know there are a few Python Programmers here and a few R coders. Mid last year R Studio released a beta version of "Reticulate" which allows for integration between Python and R. The package has been released on CRAN and it is very exciting to say the least.

Both programs at their heart are based on C++. This is what Reticulate uses to communicate between the 2 languages. As much as I love R, Pyhton is much better working with MongoDB which is the reason why I am starting to use it. Maybe some of you will find it useful as well!!!

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reticulate/reticulate.pdf
https://rstudio.github.io/reticulate/index.html
https://resources.rstudio.com/webinars/r-rstudio-1-2-amp-python-a-love-story-sean-lopp
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I am actually a fan of Java and C#. I read a few books on python and found its library more readily usable, but personally prefer strong typing. I guess should familiarise myself with python for data testing
 
silveredge said:
I am actually a fan of Java and C#. I read a few books on python and found its library more readily usable, but personally prefer strong typing. I guess should familiarise myself with python for data testing
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Python 3 has a very good compromise with type hints. I use this with mypy to catch many, but not all, errors.
 
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Production for what exactly? I use a self written C# wrapper around the C++ api of tensorflow in production to use trained deep learning models to make predictions in my trading algorithms. Python functions as development and profiling tool for which it was mainly designed. Very few production level end products rely entirely on python, an example being Dropbox.

silveredge said:
i guess you guys dont use python for production ?
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TheBigShort said:
Hi everyone,

I know there are a few Python Programmers here and a few R coders. Mid last year R Studio released a beta version of "Reticulate" which allows for integration between Python and R. The package has been released on CRAN and it is very exciting to say the least.

Both programs at their heart are based on C++. This is what Reticulate uses to communicate between the 2 languages. As much as I love R, Pyhton is much better working with MongoDB which is the reason why I am starting to use it. Maybe some of you will find it useful as well!!!

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/reticulate/reticulate.pdf
https://rstudio.github.io/reticulate/index.html
https://resources.rstudio.com/webinars/r-rstudio-1-2-amp-python-a-love-story-sean-lopp
More...

What do you use MongoDB for? Most people I know still use relational databases like MySQL or Oracle.
 
GRULSTMRNN said:
Production for what exactly? I use a self written C# wrapper around the C++ api of tensorflow in production to use trained deep learning models to make predictions in my trading algorithms. Python functions as development and profiling tool for which it was mainly designed. Very few production level end products rely entirely on python, an example being Dropbox.
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"Production" is the term used in the engineering industry for product manufacturing.


silveredge said:
I am actually a fan of Java and C#. I read a few books on python and found its library more readily usable, but personally prefer strong typing. I guess should familiarise myself with python for data testing
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I also prefer strong typing languages. Probably because I started with those. Python is relatively a new language.
 
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