-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To clarify:
Jupyter is meant to be a language-agnostic replacement for IPython. Effectively it provides several nice REPL front-end interfaces (readline-based console, QT-based application, browser notebook) which talk to the actual language interpreter/runtime in which the code runs via ZeroMQ sockets. The kernel is a process which wraps the appropriate interpreter (python in the original IPython, R in this case), communicating over ZeroMQ with the front-end. The kernel receives code to execute and captures various forms of output (stdout/stderr, return values, or anything that can be displayed in a browser (graphics, audio, video, etc)). The main intended purpose is interactive/scientific computing and teaching. The name Jupyter is derived from the three languages initially supported (Julia, Python, R), but kernels for a large number of languages are available. I have preliminary packages available for several more and further ITPs will follow depending how this one goes. On 15/02/16 10:58, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > On Sonntag, 14. Februar 2016, Gordon Ball wrote: >> Description : R kernel for Jupyter/IPython >> >> This is a native R kernel for the Jupyter (formerly IPython) >> interactive computing tool. > > what is that? Please expand the description a bit, explaining what > an R kernel is. (is that something like the linux or hurd kernel? I > doubt it :) > > > cheers, Holger > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlbBu3IACgkQKjK+VzJFQ+XOswCgpFuz0ZDrLhlRsPQmbGpq/TDv 4mMAnAgannIYRn9LZpUYAkoSBHZTjTEq =0NAv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----