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Published inNov 2016
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ISBN-139781785884870
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Dan Toomey
Dan Toomey
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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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Adding R scripting to your installation


Two big installation platforms are Mac and Windows. There are separate, but similar, steps required to make R scripting available in your Jupyter installation.

Adding R scripts to Jupyter on a Mac

If you are operating a Mac, you can add R scripting using the command-line:

conda install -c r r-essentials

This will start off with a large installation of the R environment, which contains a number of common packages:

bos-mpdc7:~ dtoomey$ conda install -c r r-essentials
Fetching package metadata: ......
Solving package specifications: .........
Package plan for installation in environment /Users/dtoomey/miniconda3:
    The following packages will be downloaded:
    package                    |            build
    ---------------------------|-----------------
    jbig-2.1                   |                0          31 KB
    jpeg-8d                    |                2         210 KB
    libgcc-4.8.5               |                1         785 KB...
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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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