Introduction to Jupyter

History and Status

Jupyter and the future of IPython https://ipython.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython

Installation

Basically, Download Continuum Anaconda http://jupyter-notebook-beginner-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Once you have conda, you may install “R Essentials” into the current environment:

conda install -c r r-essentials

Notebook

Here are some common usage:

1. keyboard shortcut: https://sowingseasons.com/blog/reference/2016/01/jupyter-keyboard-shortcuts/23298516

2. Inspect data files:

   !head -n 5 filename.ext
   

3. load, save, run file

   %load file.py
   %%writefile myfile.py
   %run myfile.py
   

4. time the execution:

   %timeit range(1000)
   %%timeit x = range(10000)
   ...: max(x)
   ...:
   

5. for more magic and help:

   %lsmagic
   %COMMAND-NAME?
   

6. display html:

   from IPython.core.display import display, HTML
   display(HTML('<h1>Hello, world!</h1>'))
   

7. display image:

   from IPython.display import Image, display
   display(Image(filename='test.png'))
   

8. display video:

   from IPython.display import YouTubeVideo
   YouTubeVideo('sjfsUzECqK0')
   

9. create javascript:

   from IPython.display import Javascript
   Javascript("""
   $.getScript('http://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js')
   """)