I think notebooks are great for building a presentation / reports of a data exploration, but I agree that they shouldn't represent programs. Rstudio won't expo

I think notebooks are great for building a presentation / reports of a data exploration, but I agree that they shouldn't represent programs. Rstudio won't export an R-markdown notebook to PDF without rerunning all cells sequentially. It's great for keeping the code "in check", but for things that takes hours to run, it can be quite annoying. I do think most of the problems with notebooks go away if you somehow force sequential running before presenting it to other people. Another really cool take on notebooks are Julia's Pluto Notebooks. Like a spreadsheet, there is no sequence that cells are run in. Everything is updated simultaneously. It's kinda hard to explain, but the JuliacCn presentation on these is absolutely wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8DjrQSSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAF8DjrQSSk