installing & using R Kernel for Jupyter Notebook

r-kernel-setup.R

# at the R REPL prompt

devtools::install_github('IRkernel/repr')

devtools::install_github("IRkernel/IRdisplay")

devtools::install_github("IRkernel/IRKernel")

require(IRdisplay)

require(IRkernel)

installspec()

# optional install very nice Jupyter notebook themes
# the next three lines in a unix shell, bash, zsh, etc
# %> sudo python3 -m pip install jupyterthemes
 
# choose a theme & modify cell width 
# %> jt -t chesterish -cellw 90%

# i prefer (for security reasons) to start jupyter notebook w/ the 'no browser' flag, like so:
# %> jupyter notebook --no-browser