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1. Jupyter Lab (note: NOT Jupyter Notebook) is an attempt to make the interface more IDE-like. It's still not Rstudio due to the Jupyter's notebook nature, but
by wenc 9y ago
1. Jupyter Lab (note: NOT Jupyter Notebook) is an attempt to make the interface more IDE-like. It's still not Rstudio due to the Jupyter's notebook nature, but it's close enough for me.
I do prefer Rstudio's REPL approach of being able to run code by line or by blocks (likely inspired by MATLAB's IDE), rather than Jupyter's approach of executing code by cell (which was inspired by Mathematica). They both let you try stuff out easily while maintaining state, but the former is far easier to productionize.
2. Remote kernels over SSH aren't that hard -- I do this all the time via SSH tunnels. I start Jupyter Lab in an SSH console (usually on a cloud-based VM), and create a tunnel to port 8888 (the default) using my Windows SSH app (Bitvise). 1 port. That's it.
3. No comment - I only use the Python kernel.
4. Correct. Notebooks do present challenges for version control.
- nerdponx 9y agoRemote kernels over SSH aren't that hard -- I do this all the time via SSH tunnels. I start Jupyter Lab in an SSH console (usually on a cloud-based VM), and create a tunnel to port 8888 (the default) using my Windows SSH app (Bitvise). 1 port. That's it. I want the opposite. I want to use a remote kernel with a local client.
- wenc 9y agoUmm, yes, in my case, the kernel is running remotely on a cloud VM. My client is a local browser (Chrome) which connects to localhost:8888, which is a tunnel set up to connect to the remote machine on port 8888. This lets me run computationally heavy Jupyter calculations on a beefy remote backend in the cloud. My local browser merely talks to that backend via a tunnel. Here's something on the web that describes this [1] -- except with Bitvise on Windows, you don't have to enter any SSH commands. The tunnel setup etc. is all done via a GUI. This is a pretty standard SSH tunnel technique. You can use this for more than just Jupyter. [1] http://www.vickyfu.com/2017/04/using-jupyter-notebook-remotely-in-azure-vm/ http://www.vickyfu.com/2017/04/using-jupyter-notebook-remote...
- nerdponx 9y agoAgain, that's not what I mean. I want to run Jupyter (or some other front-end) on my laptop and have it talk to a kernel running on a server. You're describing running both Jupyter and the kernel on the server.
- wenc 9y agoOh I see now. You want to run the raw kernel with no front-end on the remote machine and communicate with it via the 0MQ/JSON transport layer. I'm curious, what is the advantage of doing this vs. simply running an instance of Jupyter on a remote machine?
- nerdponx 9y agoI don't necessarily want to use Jupyter as the front end. This way lets me use e.g. Pycharm with the kernel running in a console. BTW I managed to get it to work. I think I had missed a port the first time I tried.
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