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Can people without R installed run an R Notebook file successfully?


I have an R Notebook that I am building to provide an analysis for somebody, and I am wondering if I should choose another option as I don't know if she will be able to run the Notebook without having R installed.

Is it possible to run an R Notebook as a single entity or must you have R installed in order to do it?


Solution

  • To rerun the notebook they require R. But the whole point of R Notebooks is that they produce a static document as output. That document (usually in HTML format) can be shared in isolation, and does not require any additional software besides a web browser to be viewerd.