R All Over It

Introduction to R on some Jupyter notebooks. Based on the DMA Unit 2 course @ Sapienza

In order to make the Jupyter Notebooks run, it's important to install the R kernel. In order to do so, I followed these steps (mind that some of them might not be necessary, but in order to have a self-contained envorinment they might prove to be useful):

Install R from here;
Install Anaconda or Miniconda;
Create a virtual environment;
1. Install the following packages with conda:
```
conda install python=3.7.13 r pip
```
2. Install the following packages with pip:
```
pip install jupyterlab notebook
```
3. Install the following packages on R:
```
install.packages("jsonlite")
install.packages("IRkernel")
```
Run the following command on R:
```
IRkernel::installspec()
```

Warning

If the previous command gives you an error, try to do the following:

Open a terminal and run as an administrator the R console;

sudo R

Run the following commands:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("IRkernel/IRkernel")
IRKernel::installspec()

Now VSC should be able to recognize the R kernel. You can proceed with step 5

Open VSC and create a new Jupyter file. When prompted to select a kernel, go to

Select Another Kernel... → Jupyter Kernel... → R
That's it! Enjoy using R on a Jupyter notebook!

ElBi21/R-All-Over-It

R All Over It