Setting up RKernel

To expose the RKerel on Jupyterhub, please follow the following steps.

How to Set up RKernel (v 3.5.1)

1. Log into Jupyterhub an start a server. 

2. Open up a terminal, then start R inside of the terminal.
   

   

3. Now, following the IKernel instructions run the following commands and choose an appropriate CRAN server. Server 64 is NY. 

   install.packages(c('repr', 'IRdisplay', 'evaluate', 'crayon', 'pbdZMQ', 'devtools', 'uuid', 'digest'))
   
   devtools::install_github('IRkernel/IRkernel')
   IRkernel::installspec(name = 'ir35', displayname = 'R 3.5')

   

    

4. Go back to Jupyterhub, refresh the page and you should now see R Kernel available.