Jupyter notebook markdown code#

All that coming from the same single source file, which increases dramatically both reprodutibility and maintainability.

Jupyter notebook markdown code#

Then we will move on and open a simple Google Colaboratory notebook with an R kernel, run five lines of R code and generate, from our RMarkdown file, documents in as many formats as we want: HTML output pages, PDF, EPUB, Microsoft Word, Power Point presentations, xaringan presentations, bookdown documents and so on. This program is writen in Python and converts an entire Python Jupyter notebook into an RMarkdown file. So let’s start the party! The main goal here is to make this passage from one programming world to the other as easy as possible. I wrote a short program that aims to help a Python user with no prior R knowledge to join the RMarkdown party. I believe that the RMarkdown ecosystem is one of the resources that Python users should consider getting to know, in order to build reports like this one or this other one using only Markdown and Python (and just five lines of R code in a Google Colab).

Indeed, there are some nice resources available in Python that might not be present in R yet, and vice versa. And I must admit it: R is super fun too! The more I study both languages, the more certainty I have that the polyglot path in Data Analytics and Data Science is what I want for me.Īs a matter of fact, programming languages should be treated simply as tools and be used depending on the task and the specific context of the problem you need to solve. However, for the last few months, I’ve been more and more into R, due to work and academic reasons. Python was my first love when I started my journey in the programming world a couple of years ago, and it is still my favorite language. It is official and much more general than my Python code presented here. NOTE 2: For R users, check the rmarkdown::convert_ipynb() function.

NOTE 1: If you want to jump right into my code, go straight to section 3 (“From Jupyter to the RMarkdown world”).