JupyterNotebook

A simple guide to install R Kernel on Jupyter Notebook (Windows). Do not need Anaconda.

Objectives:
1. 1. Install R Kernel on Jupyter Notebook (Windows)
Required Tools:
1. 1. R for windows— R for windows
  2. JupyterNotebook — Jupyter Notebook
Steps:
1. 1. Install R. Use the R terminal (do not use R studio) to install R packages:
    - install.packages(c(‘repr’, ‘IRdisplay’, ‘evaluate’, ‘crayon’, ‘pbdZMQ’, ‘devtools’, ‘uuid’, ‘digest’))
    - install.packages(‘IRkernel’)
  2. Make Kernel available to Jupyter
    - IRkernel::installspec()
    - OR IRkernel::installspec(user = FALSE) #install system-wide
  3. Open a notebook and open new R script.

Further notes

After getting Additional R library might be hard to install inside the Notebook. For workaround, install desired library in R terminal then open the Notebook.
If need to use R.exe on windows command terminal, ensure R.exe is on path. [likely location: C:\R\R-2.15.1\bin]
ggplot tutorial

References:

Easy way to convert Jupyter Notebook into Gist.

Required Tools:
1. 1. Jupyter extension package
Steps:
1. 1. Install Jupyter extension and configurator
  2. Commands
    1. pip install jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
    2. jupyter contrib nbextension install
    3. pip install jupyter_nbextensions_configurator
    4. jupyter nbextensions_configurator enable
Open notebook and there will be a new tab Nbextensions
Select Gist it and enable it. See step 5 for further configuration.
Note: somehow I cannot create anonymous gist even though Gist-it allows it. Therefore, would need to create a access token from Github.
To generate the access token, go to link and click “generate new token”. Provide a description and under scope, tick gist and click Generate token
Copy the token string. Return to Gist-it parameters selection in Notebook and Copy the token into the GitHub personal access token. Tick Gists default to public and click Enable
To gist a notebook, click on the Github icon, tick Make the gist public and enter a description, click Gist it!