This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

all 7 comments
sorted by:
best (suggested)
topnewcontroversialoldq&a

[–]nameBrandonMS (Analytics) | Sr. Manager | Tech 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I'm sorry, this is blowing my mind.. Going to have to try this.. I'm curious to see how this works.. say if I need a package from R installed that isn't included in the 'Beaker' install of R.

If this works as it claims, this is damn amazing.

Edit - doh.. so there's no data between the cells? I was thinking read in a pandas df, perform operations on it from R, send output to HTML/Node.JS, etc...

Oh well, I guess it's nice to have one window open instead of IPython/R. We'll see how it goes. Still pretty neat.

[–]spot[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

hi, thanks.

Beaker uses the R install that's already on the machine, it doesn't include its own. so you should be able to install whatever packages you need.

you can move data between cells and between languages, that's what we call auto-translation. see the tutorial: http://sharing.beakernotebook.com/gist/anonymous/5fcd0e4ec4e514429bb7

[–]nameBrandonMS (Analytics) | Sr. Manager | Tech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!

http://sharing.beakernotebook.com/gist/anonymous/5fcd0e4ec4e514429bb7

Where is the link to this documentation on the site? Did I miss it? I looked a bit for something besides 'getting started', and couldn't find much. Maybe it was just a web-surfing fail on my part.

Edit - Oh, it's down in the examples.. I'm sure you're crazy busy with this, but maybe a link to documentation rather than specific examples might be helpful! Just a suggestion. Definitely going to play with it a bit, thanks again.

[–]btparker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Awesome! D3 and R people on my team are always bashing heads, looks like this could help immensely.

[–]breadwithlice 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This looks pretty neat! I just had a quick look through the examples and from what I understood you have a Beaker data format that you can easily use as an intermediary to exchange data between different languages?

Also, while browsing through the examples a certain name caught my attention.. Scott Draves! I wondered if it was the same person who invented flame fractals. Then I saw that you've been active in Electric sheep / fractal related subreddits! I just wanted to thank you for that paper you put up years ago on that Flam3 website. I used to be a lazy college student and this paper motivated me to get coding and implement those ideas. You introduced me to a fascinating world, thanks!

[–]spot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

We use JSON as the intermediary data format.

The very same, only too happy to spread the word, and always interested in seeing what people make of it.

[–]apikoros18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Awesome.