Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017)

Re:Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebo... by peatmoss on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:26AM (#18343354)

R notebooks behave similarly to org-mode, albeit with fewer supported languages and a few less options for controlling execution and value passing between code blocks. Org-mode is the oldest and most powerful environment of this sort that I know of.

That said, for new users, I think R Notebooks are less daunting than Emacs + org-mode.

Like most things associated with RStudio and the Tidyverse, I feel that they’ve really done their homework. Even if org-mode does more, I feel it’s pretty evident that R Notebooks at least made an effort to understand org-mode’s prior art.

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Re:Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebo... by kryptiskt on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:42AM (#18344583)

I think it's likely R was inspired more by Mathematica's venerable notebook interface.

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Re:Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebo... by klmr on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:58AM (#18344659)

It was obviously inspired by many different things but the most direct genealogy is WEB [1] → noweb → Sweave → Knitr → R Markdown → R Notebooks.

Mathematica’s notebook interface in turn was almost certainly also inspired (directly or indirectly) by WEB, given that this was the first literate programming tool ever created.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEB

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