the rzmq-0.7.7.tgz is weird:

1. why does an OSX version contain a .so instead of a .dylib
2. why is there a rzmq.so (mentat's conflicted copy).so? which one is the right one?

could packagers in the future please not put code into dropbox, ever?

i has spurious crashes caught segfault: invalid permissions resulting from pbdZMQ having been compiled against another R version.

reinstalling pbdZMQ fixed this.

note that this isn’t a result from our decision to switch to pbdZMQ, as stringi and others also crashed (it just crashed immediately instead of only sometimes)

The commands for source installation instructions say to install rzmq while IRkernel uses pbdzmq.

I believe this has come up in some issues for IRkernel.

If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't the commands be the same as for installing from binary?

https://github.com/chronitis/ipyrmd is pretty useful, https://github.com/grst/ipymd even more so.

It was inspired by IRkernel/IRkernel#279 (comment)

we don’t support %%HTML magic, but nonmagical IRdisplay::display_html()

see IRkernel/IRkernel#260

The layout transition change at 850 pixels wide, which is super wide.
But the issue is on mobile layout you have no access on the manu to go to any of github repo. So I was like WTF how do I get to the irkernel repo.

Ok, 850 too wide is subjective opinion, also nitpicking but there is a second media transition at 840, so you might want to place the media transition at one specific width at the same time if you fix that.

I've pushed a 0.2 tag to the repr repo.

Ping @JanSchulz for packaging. I've also invited you to be a collaborator - I still like us all to work through pull requests for non-trivial changes, but you've definitely done enough to get commit rights. And it would be handy to be able to assign issues like this one to you! :-)

The installation instructions say to run the following line, to install for current user.

IRkernel::installspec(user = FALSE)

I think you mean:

IRkernel::installspec(user = TRUE)

in IRkernel/repr#42 (comment), @balta2ar said we should add this to the FAQ. i agree.

Q. How to change plot size? A. Use this: library(repr) then options(repr.plot.width=4, repr.plot.height=3).

library(repr) should not be necessary though

from feedback:

• “The packages can be installed for the with the” → remove “for the”
• ZMQ onto requirements page; mention requirements page on installation page [this is also IRkernel/IRkernel#216)
• make headers linkable and highlight linked-to (:target) headers
• mention what irkernel is on frontpage

For the next release if would be nice to have both Windows and MacOSX packages for R 3.1 and 3.2.

CC: @noamross for the mac side :-)

see IRkernel/IRkernel#531 (comment)

• make it work with pkgdown
• make links lead to the latest docs and provide a sidebar or so for other versions, the changelog, and so on.
• add page documenting all options.

R vs Py:

PY: only the returned value of the last expression is displayed
R: every returned value of a top level expression in a cell is displayed

• in both cases: anything which is displayed via the display system

Examples

"Displayed"
{
"Not displayed"
IRdisplay::display("Displayed via the display system")
"Displayed, because it is the last statement in the block, which is used as return value"
}

I'm trying to install IRkernel via Rconsole.
As I install the initial packages I get a warning about the system not being able to update previous 'digest' package.

I tried to install it again or update it but with no success.
As a consequence of this my following command fails:

devtools::install_github('IRkernel/IRkernel')
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) :
there is no package called ‘digest’

Any advice is welcome!

Thank you

The installation at https://irkernel.github.io/installation/#linux-panel for Ubuntu say to execute:
sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev libcurl-openssl1.0-dev libssl-dev
but it should be:
sudo apt-get install libzmq3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev jupyter-core jupyter-client
like it's in Debian.
It gave me the same errors and solved it as in #596 .

I just create this to immediately celebrate its closing via 3a098a0

we have glorious docs with a script autobuilding them, with cool URLs and all!

http://irkernel.github.io/docs/repr/0.8/repr_-times-.recordedplot.html#examples

the idea was to have docs for all releases that we bothered to write a description for. renaming of the files splitting/merging topics for aliases, or removal of sections won’t cause link breakage.

🎉 @takluyver @JanSchulz

IRkernel/IRkernel#234

from @flying-sheep

The default is install.packages(..., repos = getOption('repos')), which evaluates to install.packages(..., repos = c(CRAN = '@CRAN@'))

@CRAN@ means “show a selector”, but IRkernel doesn’t identify as “interactive” yet, so interactive functions like popping up a repo selector doesn’t work.

therefore, you either have to call install.packages(..., repos = c('https://...', ...)) every time, or options(repos = c('https://...', ...)) once in your notebook (before the install.packages) call.

you can get something automatically by doing e.g.:

country.code <- 'de'  # use yours
url.pattern <- 'https://'  # use http if you want
repo.data.frame <- subset(getCRANmirrors(), CountryCode == country.code & grepl(url.pattern, URL))
options(repos = repo.data.frame$URL)

As documented in IRkernel/IRkernel#338 (and there was another one with old ggplot2 code), not all output is currently shown if that output is writign directly to a filedescriptor. Maybe add in out internal code ("If your code is not printed with that evaluate line, we can't show it in the notebook")

The site should link back to https://github.com/irkernel somewhere.

There seems to be a CI service for all three major OSes and it is used by conda-forge to build conda packages for matplotlib on all of them. It should be possible to adapt this pattern to R and use that to upload all pushes to a central repo. On the a release, we would only copy the files to this repo.

I haven't played with this, but examples can be found here: https://github.com/conda-forge

That’s because redcarpet isn’t very good: vmg/redcarpet#230

dunno how to reshape README until it works on both https://github.com/IRkernel/IRkernel and https://irkernel.github.io/

It's currently totally out of date, not needed anymore since the switch to the new zmq lib and install_github is even clearer until we have all packages on CRAN.

If update.packages touches a native package which is loaded, it will fail and leave the package in a weired state (at least if I use R CMD build in my local git).

This is not a problem unless that that package is jsonlite, which the kernel needs... In that case you need to shutdown all kernels and then reinstall jsonlite...

as pointed out in IRkernel/IRkernel#50, we either need OSX mavericks builds or somehow make a symlink work.

apparently disabling jekyll by putting a .nojekyll file in the root directory works to make the symlink work, but this will disable the site.

so we could either split the R repository into its own IRkernel/repo git repository and add the .nojekyll file there, or duplicate the files (or specifically rebuild them for mavericks)