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Bob Wakefield
Bob Wakefield

Reputation: 4009

Installing R for Jupyter

I'm having an issue installing R for Jupyter. It seems like the instructions are outdated. I installed the latest version of Anaconda. I'm running R 3.4.1. The following is the R script that is supposed to install the necessary kernel. I'm running this in RGui and RStudio. Both fail.

install.packages(c('repr', 'IRdisplay', 'evaluate', 'crayon', 'pbdZMQ', 'devtools', 'uuid', 'digest'))
devtools::install_github('IRkernel/IRkernel')
IRkernel::installspec()

Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : there is no package called ‘digest’

This makes no sense as I'm getting a message that says, digest was unpacked in the first step.

Error in IRkernel::installspec() : jupyter-client has to be installed but “jupyter kernelspec --version” exited with code 127. In addition: Warning message: running command '"jupyter" kernelspec --version' had status 127

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4397

Answers (4)

Caesar
Caesar

Reputation: 1092

The following installation steps worked for me:

> conda create -n r_env r-essentials r-base
> source activate r_env
> conda install -c r r
> conda install -c r r-irkernel

Then while creating a new jupyter notebook, select R kernel.

Upvotes: 0

David Duarte
David Duarte

Reputation: 664

To get it working in RStudio:

  • Make sure you the location of python.exe and jupyter.exe is added to your PATH variable (you can add it just for the session going to the prompt and running SET PATH=%PATH%;"insert path; insert path2 and then running rstudio.exe from the same command prompt session)

Upvotes: 0

Farid ullah
Farid ullah

Reputation: 291

We can also configure R using conda in Jupyter. Open your command prompt and execute the following line.

conda install -c r r-essentials

If you don't want to install R-essentials in your current environment, then execute the following line.

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

This will install r-essentials into a new environment.

For more information, follow this link.

https://www.datacamp.com/community/blog/jupyter-notebook-r

Upvotes: 1

Bob Wakefield
Bob Wakefield

Reputation: 4009

I was working on windows. The common advice was to work in R terminal and not RStudio. That still didn't work. The key was to add C:\Users\[user name]\Anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\jupyter_client to my path variable.

Upvotes: 0

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