Calling R and Python from Excel locally

In this first part of the chapter, we are going to learn about using the +or Excel that can interface with R directly, along with xlwings to interact with Python from Excel. We will also quickly show how one can use a VBA script to call R from Excel. In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

• Why you would want to call R/Python from Excel locally
• Setting up an environment
• Calling R/Python directly from Excel

Let’s begin!