The Codelab also support an R environment. You can write and test R script. You can also use R script inside a jupyter notebook code for quick test.

Install R environment

The R environment is not included in Codelab by default, but don't worry it is quite simple to install it. Simply run the following command :

. /init-lab/r_config/install_r.sh

This will take a few minutes but this will install the R environment completely. Once its done, just install the VsCode R extensions ("REditorSupport.r"). And you are ready to go.

With this environment installed, you can create and run R script directly with VsCode. Here is the documentation about R in VsCode, please not that you don't need to following the installation process : https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/r

Using R in Jupyter notebook

With the R environment installed you can write R code directly in a Jupyter notebook file and test it ! Verifiy that you have the Jupyter extension from ms-toolsai. ("ms-toolsai.jupyter").

Open a Jupyter notebook file and click on the Python 3 button on top right :

Select the R kernel. Click on Select Another Kernel > Jupyter Kernel > and you should see R kernel. to go !