[R-sig-eco] Why use Rpy?

[Philip Dixon]

What is the benefit of using Rpy?

I'm familiar with Python as a high-level compiled language.  Python
was very popular here (Iowa State, Statistics) a few years ago to
vastly speed up S+ simulation studies.  One could recode into Python
a lot more quickly than recoding into C++.  Both Python and C++ were
much faster than S+; I don't know how Python compares with native R.

Thanks,
Philip Dixon