juliasilge
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8 months ago Yeah, thanks for bringing this back up; you absolutely can roundtrip a pin through R and Python, as long as you use a file format that is amenable (i.e. not RDS, not joblib, etc).
We did talk about this when we first started the Python package. The main challenge, as I remember it, is running the Python board_deparse() from R and vice versa. Right now, it is pretty simple. Here is what Python would need to do for R:
but we are tracking changes that need to be made in #726. Also doesn't look so bad for what R would need to do for Python.
We had other concerns at the time about trying to stay consistent with different versions of the R and Python packages but I am not so worried about that now, as that basic read/write interface is pretty solid. Also, we would need to check the metadata before generating the HTML to know if this file can be read from the other language.
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If you make a pin with the R package, you get https://github.com/rstudio/pins-r/blob/main/inst/preview/index.html created with it, which tells the Connect user how to load the data. But it only has R code there, even though you can totally use pins-python to read it (right?)
It would be nice if the code example was tabbed and had Python and R example code. (Assuming you agree, there should also be the same done to pins-python, https://github.com/rstudio/pins-python/blob/main/pins/rsconnect/html/index.html is Python only).