Python 3.7 in r-script

[schrags]

Has anyone tried using reticulate inside of an r-script executed through rbridge to run a python script that requires python 3.7? I can execute the script fine manually but when it's run through the geoprocessing task it seems to ignore my python configuration line and tries to run it under 2.x and errors out.

use_python('C:\Program Files\Python37\python.exe') is the line of code i'm using at the top of the R script right after the reticulate require. Somehow this doesn't work when it's executed through rbridge. Is there another way to specify a python version?

[dpavlushko]

ArcGIS host Python interpreter. Thus, tool_exec() cannot change already loaded Python.

[schrags]

That makes sense. It seems as if there is no way to use python packages that require 3.5+ with ArcGIS server for windows geoprocessing?

[scdub]

You should be able to -- Server includes two separate installations of Python: one for driving the 10.x environment (Python 2.7), and a separate install for the Pro runtime in server. There is some basic documentation in the Server documentation which should get you started. If you connect to that instance, it'll be running on Python 3.6, and you can use conda to augment the availability of additional packages.

[scdub]

@schrags Closing this issue for inactivity, but if you do need any further advice about working with R and Python 3.x, let us know.