Abdul Majed Raja shows how to call Python from R and build plots using the Seaborn Python package:
The reticulate package provides a comprehensive set of tools for interoperability between Python and R. The package includes facilities for:
- Calling Python from R in a variety of ways including R Markdown, sourcing Python scripts, importing Python modules, and using Python interactively within an R session.
- Translation between R and Python objects (for example, between R and Pandas data frames, or between R matrices and NumPy arrays).
- Flexible binding to different versions of Python including virtual environments and Conda environments.
Reticulate embeds a Python session within your R session, enabling seamless, high-performance interoperability.
The more common use of reticulate I’ve seen is running TensorFlow neural networks from R.