Install %%R cell magic in docker from jupyter docker stack

Question

I started working on the docker page, I opened my browser and installed data science docker image from one of the websites.

So this is entire docker file looks like:

FROM jupyter/datascience-notebook:45b8529a6bfc

USER $NB_UID

I opened my Jupiter notebook with my R kernel it works pretty well. But when it try using %% R cell magic  with my ipython notebooks it's throwing me an error as shown below:

%%R

3+4

UsageError: Cell magic `%%R` not found.

I tried searching on the web, but I could not find anything related.

Answer 1

I had also faced this issue when I tried using the code below:

%load_ext rpy2.ipython

 and got the below error:

No module named 'simplegeneric'

To rectify this error, I installed the simplegeneric packaging by using pip command as shown below:

pip install simplegeneric

After this, I tried running the command and it works fine. I hope this will help you, give a try.

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