Merge pull request #151 from rgaiacs/reticulate

Add blog post about using reticulate

_posts/2018/05/2018-05-13-reticulate.md

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+layout: page
+authors: ["Reticulate"]
+teaser: "Rethinking the Lesson Pipeline with reticulate"
+title: "Rethinking the Lesson Pipeline"
+date: 2018-05-15
+time: "09:00:00"
+category: [ "Lesson Development"]
+---
+
+If you had a look at [CarpentryCon](http://www.carpentrycon.org/)'s
+[program](http://www.carpentrycon.org/#prog),
+you might know that I will be facilitating two sessions:
+"Contributing on GitHub" on Wednesday, 30 May
+and
+"Bring and Build Your Own Lesson 'Carpentries-style'" on Friday, 1 June.
+During the process to organise both sessions,
+I have ben thinking a lot of what we could improve
+in the way that we write our lessons.
+One of the things that I know that annoys many of the maintainers
+is the fact that they need to copy and paste the output of each command.
+RStudio has been work in a new project called [reticulate](https://rstudio.github.io/reticulate/)
+that "enables easy interoperabilty between Python and R chunks"
+and in this process they have made it much easier to use Python from R Markdown.
+
+I created [one pull request to swcarpentry/lesson-example](https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-example/pull/202)
+with an concept idea of using `reticulate`.
+The pull request includes some screenshots
+of Bash and Python code chunks being processed by R Markdown.
+This is one discussion that all members of the community are welcome to participate in,
+so please leave a comment on the pull request
+or, even better, find me during CarpentryCon to talk about it,
+if you are at what promises to be a great conference.