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Can't use R language with Beaker Notebook "Error: R language backend failed!"

I can't figure out how to configure my setting to get R to work in Beaker? I tried both with the experimental beaker-notebook-1.5.3-0-gb1553d1-electron-mac.dmg version because I really don't want to use the browser for my programming. I also tried the normal beaker-notebook-1.5.2-0-g34d512f-mac.dmg but got the same issue when running R.

Checked where my R is located

$ which R
/usr/bin/R

Checked which version of R i'm using

$ R

R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31) -- "Pumpkin Helmet"
Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

My preferences .json file

#~/.beaker/v1/config/beaker.pref.json
{
  "languages" : {
    "IPython" : {
      "path" : "/Users/Mu/anaconda/bin"
    },
    "Python3" : {
      "path" : "/Users/Mu/anaconda/envs/python3/bin"
    }
    "R" : {
      "path" : "/usr/bin"
    }
  },
  "pref-format" : "1",
  "advanced-mode" : false,
  "allow-anonymous-usage-tracking" : true
}

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IPython is working fine...

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Solution

  • How did you install R? For me R works and it's in /usr/local/bin/R -- I installed from r-project.org. But really it should work with R anywhere in your PATH.

    Possibly the way Beaker is running R it is starting with a library path different from where you installed them?

    If the problem persists please file an issue on github https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook/issues

    Thanks.

    --

    addendum: sounds like some people need to install the dependencies with the cmd line and some with R studio. would love to hear from an R expert how to make this consistent.