Ista, If you do not appreciate it or do not find it useful, just discard the message. I tried several things and this is what worked for me. If you have another solution or a better solution let me know.
Regards, Paul 2017-01-06 13:00 GMT-05:00 Ista Zahn <istaz...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Paul Bernal <paulberna...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > Great news! I was able to install the IRkernel successfully and I am now > > able to create R notebooks in Jupyter. > > Congratulations. > > Just in case anybody out there is > > struggling with this too, here is what I did (I have Windows 8, but it > will > > probably work for Mac OS X as well): > > > > 1-Go to the page https://irkernel.github.io/installation > > 2-Open the R console (I have R version 3.3.2) > > 3-Go to the step where it says "Installing via supplied binary packages > > (default on Windows + Mac OS X) > > 4-Instead of installing all the packages using one single command as > > suggested in the installation instructions, go to the R console and > install > > all of the packages one by one, as follows > > >install.packages('repr') > > >install.packages('IRdisplay') > > >install.packages('evaluate') > > >install.packages('crayon') > > >install.packages('pbdZMQ') > > >install.packages('devtools') > > >install.packages('uuid') > > >install.packages('digest') > > This can hardly make any difference. > > install.packages(c('repr', 'IRdisplay', 'evaluate', 'crayon', > 'pbdZMQ', 'devtools', 'uuid', 'digest')) > > is fine. > > > 5-Connect to a CRAN mirror and select install packages, look for the > > package githubinstall and clic on it to install it > > Why? > > > 6-Start loading each one of the packages installed like this: > > >library("repr") > > >library("IRdisplay") > > >library("evaluate") > > >library("crayon") > > >library("pbdZMQ") > > >library("devtools") > > >library("uuid") > > >library("digest") > > >library("githubinstall") > > Attaching all these packages is not needed. The githubinstall package > is not needed at all. > > > 7-After this you have to update jsonlite which is a dependencie of > package > > githubinstall, you update jsonlite using the following command: > > >update.packages('jsonlite')' > > Also not needed, as githubinstall is not needed. > > > 8-After this, you have to type the following commands: > > >library(httr) > > >set_config(use_proxy(url="the required IP", port=8080, username="your > > network user", password="the password you use to unlock your computer")) > > >#you can get the required IP going to the command prompt and using the > > command ping > > >#port has to be 8080 > > Maybe something like this is needed if you are behind a firewall, I > don't know. But none of that is generally needed. > > > 9-type use the command: > > >devtools::install_github('IRkernel/IRkernel') > > 10-Last but not least, type the following command: > > >IRkernel::installspec() > > > > If you follow this instructions you should be able to install the > IRkernel > > successfully and start writing R notebooks in Jupyter. > > > > Hope this helps, > > I suspect it will confuse more than help unfortunately. > > Best, > Ista > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
