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Integrating R code

Is it possible to integrate/call R code from this Python IDE?
I've done some analysis in R and would not like to re-code if possible.

thanks.

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Hi Adam, I've been looking around for a way to integrate R as well. I'm in the same boat as you, got a lot of work in R that I'd love to access from here. I was hoping we could use rpy2 but I don't think it's supported in Quantopian.

The entire platform (research, backtesting, paper trading, and live trading) runs on Python. It allows us to build an event-driven system and harness the large open source community behind it. If you are interested in learning Python, take a look at these tutorials. I suspect most of the functionality of your code can be replicated using the pandas/numpy/scipy libraries.

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I vote that you incorporate the R kernel as well.

Seconded. R is the heart and soul of quantitative analysis in the first place.