Python

Making art in Python with plotnine

A step-by-step guide to creating art in Python. This blog post covers creating random data, generating colour palettes, visualising with plotnine, and making artistic functions.

Seeing double? Building the same app in Shiny for R and Shiny for Python

Back in July 2022 at rstudio::conf(2022), Posit (formerly RStudio) announced the release of Shiny for Python. I wanted to see how the two compared - so I built the same Shiny app twice! This blog post highlights a few of the differences, and things that were a little tricky switching to Shiny for Python.

Combining R and Python with {reticulate} and Quarto

Sometimes you might need to use R. Sometimes you might need to use Python. Sometimes you need to use both at the same time. This blog post shows you how to combine R and Python code using {reticulate} and output the results using Quarto.