March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
19h 35m
English
Python uses the hash mark for a comment, just like R. You can execute Python code in VS 2017 by highlighting the code and simultaneously pressing the Ctrl and Enter keys. Again this is completely the same as you need to do either in RStudio IDE or in R Tools for VS. You can use either single or double apostrophes for delimiting strings. The first command you will learn is the print command. Write and execute the following code in the Visual Studio 2017 Python script window:
# Introducing Python
# Hash starts a comment
print("Hello World!")
# Next command ignored
# print("Nice typing")
print('Printing again.')
print('O"Hara') # In-line comment
print("O'Hara")
You can observe the code you wrote and the results in the ...