Can anyone share the reason you would use the reticulate package?
I've been using R and Shiny for the past few years and do not find any need to use Python (yet). I would like to learn Python and am beyond excited to know that we can use it along with R in RStudio.
I have been learning it because of the presence of a Python package not available in R. For me it is because it is a niche subject matter package with a small audience. I am also hoping that using reticulate will allow some degree of collaboration within the research community I'm part of between Python and R users.
I mainly use it for API, authorizations and such. Lots of readily available packages and functions. The others are: NLP work is ahead in Python community, and maybe some database or data lake interface stuff.
And best of all - you just call Python function just like you would call R function