I’m a bit troubled with a simple thing. I was trying to install a package called hunspell, but I discovered it is originally an R package. I installed this version: https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/r-hunspell, but I’m not being able to import it. Is this package supposed to work with Python? Should I use rpy2 to import it? First time using cross-platform packages so I’m a bit confused.
Just to be clear, import hunspell brings ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'hunspell' and import r-hunspell brings SyntaxError: invalid syntax.
I also noticed that this package, also installed an r-base package, but I’m also not sure how to import that.
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Answer
After running in the command line:
pip install rpy2
or with the “!” if you’re in a Jupyter Notebook. The following procedure will answer your issue, based on the official documentation:
# Using R inside python
import rpy2
import rpy2.robjects.packages as rpackages
from rpy2.robjects.vectors import StrVector
from rpy2.robjects.packages import importr
utils = rpackages.importr('utils')
utils.chooseCRANmirror(ind=1)
# Install packages
packnames = ('hunspell', 'some other desired packages')
utils.install_packages(StrVector(packnames))
# Load packages
hunspell = importr('hunspell')
If you want to access specific functions in this module you could check out these answer or that answer too.