Lets do something more interesting. Lets say we have a long string from R and we want to count how many times a particular substring is present. Python has a handy function called count that does this ...

However, Python does have a "slight edge" over ... that must be learned to do what are very simple operations in base R," argues Matlof.

Because Microsoft does not allow third-party IDEs ... If you are working on a project that combines both R and Python scripts, which I increasingly do as an R user working with generative AI ...