Github user felixcheung commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1538
Sort of. There's Conda for R:
https://www.continuum.io/content/preliminary-support-r-conda
But generally some R package are compiled on installation; knitr is a
relatively bigger one.
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