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>all in one document. So it is possible to run both R and Python commands in the same notebook?
Yeah, there are bridges for converting Python data types to R and vice versa (Rpy2).
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thanks! what problems do you mean? maybe they are fixable :) questions and feedback are very welcome. btw, look for a big announcement from beaker next week! https://twitter.com/beakernotebook
Hah! We have had the same conversation before - see my other answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11507583 But I'll add that I've never been able to set it up satisfactorily for everyone in my team to use it on a shared server. Shared installs don't seem to work very easily (I'm sure it's possible and probably easy, but it's very unclear to me how). It would be awesome if it had a daemon similar to RStud…
definitely look for the announcement next week for help on this front.
currently the std method would be users to ssh to the shared server and run their own beaker server with a shell, and then connect to the port/URL that it prints out. not exactly the easiest UI, but that's something we are working on...
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I know. Open source folks, when you put a 'Home' button in the corner, make it go to the project home page, not the blog home page. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a blog post about an update for something that I don't know what it is, and my patience to click around trying to find out whether it is something I would be interested in or not is very limited. I'm glad I did in this case because an open-source e…
Just a heads up: Jupyter Notebook is not an open source alternative to Mathematica. Originally, Jupyter was iPython notebook, an IDE of sorts for data science and analysis in Python, by writing code and markdown together in a more coherent and integrated way. Then they incorporated a host of other popular open source languages for computational science such as R, Julia, F#, ect., so that we could use the best tools f…
Although it has and allow the creation of extensions which provide a lot of usefull features. In this version, the nbextensions are introduced as python packages, so that they're even easier to use/install.
The best thing with Jupyter Notebooks, is that one can write text with markdown, show formulas with LaTex (using MathJax), show code inputs and outputs in REPL-style, all together with possible Bash use, other languages' snippets, and nice cell %magics.
Anyone knows why Debian/Ubuntu is still on version 2.3? Is it because the Jupyter devs are all Mac aficionados?
http://jupyter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html#new-to...
use something like:
>pip install jupyter -U
Probably the longest time-to-knowing-what-the-hell-this-thing-actually-is I've ever seen on HN. Clicked on the link, clicked on a Github link, clicked to the Github root, clicked on the link to the project's site, clicked on the first item in the table of contents, got a vague idea what it was. I feel grumpy and old. :(
I know. Open source folks, when you put a 'Home' button in the corner, make it go to the project home page, not the blog home page. If there's one thing I can't stand it's a blog post about an update for something that I don't know what it is, and my patience to click around trying to find out whether it is something I would be interested in or not is very limited. I'm glad I did in this case because an open-source e…
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>all in one document. So it is possible to run both R and Python commands in the same notebook?
Yeah, there are bridges for converting Python data types to R and vice versa (Rpy2).
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no, you miss the point of the notebooks. You use it to tell story.
As a seasoned software engineer, I use it as a persistent, better-organizable shell. Even when working on a remote host, I forward its port and work there rather than open a shell on the remote machine, and I'm someone whose IDE is vim. It's just much better when you can see all your functions in one place, edit a function far back and have the changes propagate to the last command you ran.
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I love beaker. I spent a week or so trying to force myself to use Jupyter since others in my team use it, but I bailed out and went back to beaker eventually - it's got everything Jupyter has but is all round nicer to use. It's not without it's problems, but neither is Jupyter by a long shot. edit: fixed a word
thanks! what problems do you mean? maybe they are fixable :) questions and feedback are very welcome. btw, look for a big announcement from beaker next week! https://twitter.com/beakernotebook