Learning Jupyter

Basic R in Jupyter

Start a new R notebook and call it R Basics. We can enter a small script just so we can see how the steps progress for an R script. Enter the following into separate cells of your notebook:

myString <- "Hello, World!"
print (myString)

You will end up with a starting screen that looks like this:

We should note the aspects of the R notebook view:

• We have the R logo in the upper-right corner. You will see this logo running in other R installations.
• There is also the peculiar R O just below the R icon. The unfilled circle indicates that the kernel is at rest, and the filled circle indicates the kernel is working.
• The rest of the menu ...