I'd highly recommend Yihui's extensive write up: https://yihui.name/en/2018/09/notebook-war/
Hadley On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 4:08 AM Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@effectivedefense.org> wrote: > > Hello: > > > What are the differences between Jupyter notebooks and RMarkdown > vignettes? > > > I'm trying to do real time monitoring of the broadcast quality of > a radio station, and it seems to me that it may be easier to do that in > Python than in R.[1] This led me to a recent post to > "python-l...@python.org" that mentioned "Jupyter, Mathematica, and the > Future of the Research Paper"[2] by Paul Romer, who won the 2018 Nobel > Memorial Prize in Economics only a few days ago. In brief, this article > suggests that Jupyter notebooks may replace publication in refereed > scientific journals as the primary vehicle for sharing scientific > research, because they make it so easy for readers to follow both the > scientific and computational logic and test their own modifications. > > > A "Jupyter Notebook Tutorial: The Definitive Guide"[3] suggested > I first install Anaconda Navigator. I got version 1.9.2 of that. It > opens with options for eight different "applications" including > JupyterLab 0.34.9, Jupyter Notebook 5.6.0, Spyder 3.3.1 (an IDE for > Python), and RStudio 1.1.456. > > > This leads to several questions: > > > 1. In general, what experiences have people had with > Jupyter Notebooks, Anaconda Navigator, and RMarkdown vignettes in > RStudio, and the similarities and differences? Do you know any > references that discuss this? > > > 2. More specifically, does it make sense to try to use > RStudio from within Anaconda Navigator, or is one better off using > RStudio as a separate, stand alone application -- or should one even > abandon RStudio and run R instead from within a Jupyter Notebook? [I'm > new to this topic, so it's possible that this question doesn't even make > sense.] > > > Thanks, > Spencer Graves > > > [1] If you have ideas for how best to do real time monitoring of > broadcast quality of a radio station, I'd love to hear them. I need > software that will do that, preferably something that's free, open > source. The commercial software I've seen for this is not adequate for > my purposes, so I'm trying to write my own. I have a sample script in > Python that will read a live stream from a radio tuner and output a > *.wav of whatever length I want, and I wrote Python eight years ago for > a similar real time application. I'd prefer to use R, but I don't know > how to get started. > > > [2] 2018-04-13: > "https://paulromer.net/jupyter-mathematica-and-the-future-of-the-research-paper";. > This further cites a similar article in The Atlantic from 2018-04-05: > "www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676". > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- http://hadley.nz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
