Both R and Python make it reasonably easy to work with compiled extensions. But how to access objects in one environment from the other and share state or (non-trivial) objects remains trickier. Recently (and while r-forge was ‘resting’ so we opened GitHub Discussions) a question was asked concerning R and Python object pointer exchange.
This lead to a pretty decent discussion including arrow interchange demos (pretty ideal if dealing with data.frame-alike objects), but once …