R users picking up Python

This repo provides resources to be used before and after the 2024-APR-05 workshop. During the workshop, participants will also practice Git commands by cloning and making pull requests to this repo.

R users picking up Python

But why?

Think of Python and R as complementary and not competing tools

R Python
Introduction to Statistical Learning by Gareth et al. Python version

Pizza vs Ravioli

Packages available in both R and Python

Package name R Python Notes
Plotly https://plotly.com/r/ https://plotly.com/python/ side-by-side guide
Polars1: https://rpolars.github.io/ https://docs.pola.rs/ side-by-side guide, Polars vs Pandas
Bayesian inference rstan pystan ...
janitor janitor Pyjanitor

Comparable packages (not direct port)

Package name R Python Notes
... bioconductor biopython ...
Violin plots, heatmaps ggplot2 Seaborn seaborn and ggplot2

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  1. A simple benchmark Colab demo comparing Ploars with Pandas in Python ↩