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Intall R kernel for jupyter notebook (Windows Edition)

Get R

You can get R for windows from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base.

R Kernel: Method 1

  1. Install miniconda from https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html.

    • Select the appropriate version

  2. Create a new virtual environment for R

> conda create -n recsys-env -y
# you can use whatever name you want instead of 'recsys-env'

  1. Find the location of your R installation. It may be found in C:\Program Files\R\R-4.2.1\bin.

    Note that my version of R is R-4.2.1; Yours may be different.

    When You find it, double-click to open it and the run the following commands:

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

    This Step may take some time to complete.

  2. Install Jupyter lab

> conda install jupyterlab -y
  1. You are done ! In your virtual environment, run jupyter lab and enjoy your R Kernel installation.

If you cannot open R notebooks, then stop the current jupyter server (Ctrl+C) and install R Kernel from anaconda prompt like this:

> conda install -c r r-irkernel -y

R Kernel: Method 2

I have attached the config file of my own virtual environment that you can download. Everything can be installed and replicated without any issue just like this:

> conda env create -f <path_to_recsys_env.yml>
# e.g. conda env create -f ../../recsys_env.yml