RStudio and python virtual environment - Python specified does not exist

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Solution:

Create virtual environment.

bash$ virtualenv .venv

This creates a .venv directory in .

Activate .venv.

bash$ source .venv/Scripts/activate

Then to RStudio.

Setting the in .Rprofile to ".venv/python". The .venv directory doesn't contain .venv/bin/python, instead the python.exe is at .venv/python.

library(reticulate)
Sys.setenv(RETICULATE_PYTHON = here::here(".venv/Scripts/python.exe"))