sometimes the war is lost even before the battle begins. During grad school, I wrote a whole bunch of web apps entirely in R using Shiny. It was clunky as hell, but yeah, it worked. I went looking for what's up with Shiny these days and found this - https://shiny.posit.co/

So yeah, full on pivot into python. pip install shiny. Alright!

"No web development skills required. Develop web apps entirely in R I mean Python"...yeah that's not happening.