How to import Python classes into R
Background This post is going to talk about how to import Python classes into R, which can be done using a really awesome package in R called reticulate. reticulate allows you to call Python code from R, including sourcing Python scripts, using Python packages, and porting functions and classes. To install reticulate, we can run: Creating a Python class Let's create a simple class in Python. Porting the Python class to R There's a couple ways we can can port our Python class to R. One way is by sourcing a Python script defining the class. Let's suppose our class is defined in a script called "sample_class.py". We can use the reticulate function source_python. Running the command above will not only make the class we defined will available to us…