Trouble with using R Kernel using conda and Jupyter

Question

I installed R essentials using this blog post

http://continuum.io/blog/conda-jupyter-irkernel

create a new environment just for “R essentials”:

conda create -n my-r-env -c r r-essentials

Bash

ipython notebook

But when I try and create a new notebook using R Kernel

I get this error

An error occurred while creating a new notebook.
Unexpected error while saving file: Untitled5.ipynb [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/ajay/.ipython/profile_default/security/notebook_secret'

How can i start using R from within Jupyter (Ipython)? Apologize for the very basic question

This is what I get if I type id in terminal

ajay@Inspiron-3542:~$ id
uid=1000(ajay) gid=1000(ajay) groups=1000(ajay),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),124(sambashare)

Answer 1

I suppose you are on a linux host

Start a terminal in jupyter (from home page new->terminal)

in terminal type : id

If the information you get do not match your id you need to start jupyter with NB_UID=your uuid option

Are you running this from a docker container?