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My name is Tim, I'm a software and data engineer working in the financial industry. (more)


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Oct. 26, 2022

Getting Data from Python to R using Reticulate

I use the reticulate R to Python interface quite regularly. Besides the yelling when a numeric is once again converted to float, the transfer-time of pandas DataFrames with their memory usage has been a regular topic. To get some data and maybe a definitive answert to the question “What is the best way to transfer tabular data from Python to R?” I set up a pair of tiny scipts. tl;dr: It depends.

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