On: Free Python ebook: Bayesian Methods for Hackers

[takluyver]

Yes, with a bit of glue code, you can have 'cell magics' to run code in another language. This notebook has examples with R code:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/ipython/ipyt...

There are extensions for Cython, Octave and C too. And there's a generic mechanism for scripting languages (%%script), but that only captures stdout, rather than moving objects between different languages.