Problem with IRkernel Installation Solved - Instructions on how to Solve it

On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Paul Bernal <paulbernal07 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Dear friends,

Great news! I was able to install the IRkernel successfully and I am now
able to create R notebooks in Jupyter.

Congratulations.

 Just in case anybody out there is

struggling with this too, here is what I did (I have Windows 8, but it

will

probably work for Mac OS X as well):

1-Go to the page https://irkernel.github.io/installation
2-Open the R console (I have R version 3.3.2)
3-Go to the step where it says "Installing via supplied binary packages
(default on Windows + Mac OS X)
4-Instead of installing all the packages using one single command as
suggested in the installation instructions, go to the R console and

install

all of the packages one by one, as follows

 >install.packages('repr')
 >install.packages('IRdisplay')
 >install.packages('evaluate')
 >install.packages('crayon')
 >install.packages('pbdZMQ')
 >install.packages('devtools')
 >install.packages('uuid')
 >install.packages('digest')

This can hardly make any difference.

install.packages(c('repr', 'IRdisplay', 'evaluate', 'crayon',
'pbdZMQ', 'devtools', 'uuid', 'digest'))

is fine.

5-Connect to a CRAN mirror and select install packages, look for the
package githubinstall and clic on it to install it

Why?

6-Start loading each one of the packages installed like this:

 >library("repr")
 >library("IRdisplay")
 >library("evaluate")
 >library("crayon")
 >library("pbdZMQ")
 >library("devtools")
 >library("uuid")
 >library("digest")
 >library("githubinstall")

Attaching all these packages is not needed. The githubinstall package
is not needed at all.

7-After this you have to update jsonlite which is a dependencie of

package

githubinstall, you update jsonlite using the following command:

 >update.packages('jsonlite')'

Also not needed, as githubinstall is not needed.

8-After this, you have to type the following commands:

 >library(httr)
 >set_config(use_proxy(url="the required IP", port=8080, username="your

network user", password="the password you use to unlock your computer"))

 >#you can get the required IP going to the command prompt and using the

command ping

 >#port has to be 8080

Maybe something like this is needed if you are behind a firewall, I
don't know. But none of that is generally needed.

9-type use the command:

 >devtools::install_github('IRkernel/IRkernel')

10-Last but not least, type the following command:

 >IRkernel::installspec()

If you follow this instructions you should be able to install the

IRkernel

successfully and start writing R notebooks in Jupyter.

Hope this helps,

I suspect it will confuse more than help unfortunately.

Best,
Ista

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