Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Last month, McKinney announced the founding of Ursa Labs, an innovation group intended to improve data-science tools. McKinney will ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

R vs Python: What are the main differences? Your email has been sent More people will find their way to Python for data science workloads, but there’s a case to for making R and Python complementary, ...

Data analytics software provider Periscope Data Inc. is updating its Unified Data Platform with support for the Python and R programming languages, as well as the Structured Query Language that’s used ...

The language R is in the midst of a sizzling resurgence this summer. One might hypothesize that this growth is coming at the expense of Python, by far the dominant language for data science. But some ...

Reticulate is a handy way to combine Python and R code. The reticulate help page suggests that the tool allows for: “Calling Python from R in a variety of ways including R Markdown, sourcing Python ...

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