jupyter-lab-setup.md

Setting up R and Jupyter Lab

Steps

These steps are completed in your Terminal.

1. Install Python 3. There are many ways to do this. If you are on MacOS, I recommend first installing the HomeBrew package manager then installing Python3: brew install python3.

2. Install Jupyter Lab (instructions)

3. In R, install the IRkernel package and the kernel to the current R installation:

install.packages('IRkernel')
IRkernel::installspec()

(Extra: If you also want to use Jupyter Lab in VS Code you need to also install languageserver).

4. Launch Jupyter Lab and select R notebook. To launch Jupyter Lab type jupyter lab into your terminal.