Anaconda for R users

Anaconda is a popular open-source Python distribution that includes more than 200 packages for scientific computing and data science. Recently, the Anaconda team released the “R Essentials” bundle with the IRKernel, which allows users to run R directly from a Jupyter notebook, and over 80 of the most used R packages for data science, including dplyr, shiny, ggplot2, tidyr, caret and nnet.

Anaconda includes Bokeh (http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/) which is a visualization library that provides a flexible and powerful declarative framework for creating web-based plots. Bokeh renders plots using HTML canvas and provides many mechanisms for interactivity. Bokeh has interfaces in Python, Scala, Julia, and R, which is included in the "R-Essentials" bundle as rbokeh.

In this talk we will present how to get "R-Essentials", use conda for package and environment management, run Jupyter notebooks with the IRKernel and build interactive visualizations with rbokeh (http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh).

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1. Anaconda for R Users Christine Doig Oct 2015
2. 2 • Industrial Engineer, UPC, Barcelona • Master Thesis - Voltage Stability Analysis, Aachen, Germany • Process Engineer - Operations Research, P&G • Business Analyst/Consultant, “La Caixa” • Quantitative Techniques for Finantial Markets, FME, UPC • Master in Data Mining and BI, FIB-UPC, Barcelona • Data Scientist, Continuum Analytics, Austin, Texas My background… Matlab C SAP SAS Excel VB Matlab SQL R Python R
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4. 4 • Twitter: ch_doig • Github: chdoig • Site: chdoig.github.io • Email: cdoig@continuum.io Keep in touch!
5. 5 Continuum Analytics… …distributes Anaconda, an open source Python distribution that includes more than 300 packages for scientific computing and data science …provides enterprise ready products for data scientist through the Anaconda Platform …delivers Python trainings and offers consulting services …supports the development of open source technology: conda, blaze, dask, bokeh, numba… …sponsors Python conferences PyData, SciPy, PyCon, Europython, PySS… Learn more: https://www.continuum.io/
6. Agenda 6 • Anaconda and “R Essentials” • Conda: package and environment manager • Jupyter: collaborative notebooks • Bokeh: interactive data visualizations
7. CONDA, ANACONDA & R ESSENTIALS Introduction
8. 8 Conda • Package and environment manager • Language angnostic (Python, R, Java…) • Cross-platform (Windows, OS X, Linux) $ conda install python=2.7 $ conda install pandas $ conda install -c r r $ conda install mongodb
9. 9 Conda • Open source: BSD license • Docs: http://conda.pydata.org/docs/ • GH: https://github.com/conda
10. 10 Conda vs Anaconda vs Miniconda vs R Essentials • Conda: package manager • Anaconda: Python + Conda + packages • Miniconda: Python + Conda • R Essentials: R + R packages
11. 11 Language agnostic Python packages handles environments ! natively virtualenv installs binaries compiles from source general purpose ! envs python! envs Conda Pip
12. 12 Conda + pip $ conda install pip $ pip install foo Conda skeleton pip $ conda skeleton pip foo $ conda build foo/
13. 13 Why Conda? • Python with compiled, platform-dependent C, C++, or Fortran code • Seen this message too many times:“Storing debug log for failure in /.pip/pip.log” • Multi-language Data Science Projects
14. 14 Anaconda Cloud ~ Github for binary packages
15. 15 Anaconda Cloud $ conda build conda.recipe/ $ conda server upload my_foo_pkg $ conda install -c chdoig my_foo_pkg
16. 16 Anaconda for R users $ conda install -c r r-foo
17. 17 Mirror CRAN packages $ conda skeleton cran ldavis ! $ conda build r-ldavis/ ! $ conda server upload my_r_pkg ! $ conda install -c chdoig my_r_pkg
18. 18 Conda environments name: myenv channels: - chdoig - r - foo dependecies: - python=2.7 - r - r-ldavis - pandas - mongodb - spark=1.5 - pip - pip: - flask-migrate - bar=1.4 environment.yml $ conda env create $ source activate myenv $ conda env export -n freeze.yml Create and activate Freeze versions Upload to anaconda.org $ conda server upload my_foo_env.yml $ conda env create chdoig/my_foo_env.yml
19. 19 Conda auto env cdoig:~$ cd pygotham-topic-modeling/ discarding /anaconda/bin from PATH prepending /anaconda/envs/pygotham-topic/bin to PATH (pygotham-topic)cdoig:~/pygotham-topic-modeling$ https://github.com/chdoig/conda-auto-env
20. 20 "R essentials" comes with IRKernel and over 80 of the most used R packages for data science like dplyr, shiny, ggplot2, tidyr, caret and nnet. $ conda install -c r r-essentials $ conda config --add channels r or $ conda install r-essentials R Essentials
21. 21 or, alternatively, create an environment to isolate your "R essentials" packages from others: ! $ conda create -n r-essentials -c r r-essentials R Essentials environment
22. 22 $ conda metapackage custom-r-bundle 0.1.0 --dependencies r-irkernel jupyter r-ggplot2 r-dplyr --summary "My custom R bundle” ! Custom metapackage to share
23. JUPYTER Introduction
24. 24 http://jupyter.org/ https://try.jupyter.org/ The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text.
25. 25 IPython IPython notebook nbviewer tmpnb binder Jupyter https://try.jupyter.org/ http://mybinder.org/
26. 26 ! To start jupyter notebooks, simply run the following command: ! $ jupyter notebook http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/chdoig/conda-jupyter-irkernel/blob/master/Jupyter%20and%20conda%20for%20R.ipynb
27. 27 Jupyter and conda for R notebook demo
28. 28 Slideshow
30. 30 $ jupyter nbconvert my_r_notebook.ipynb --to slides --post serve
32. BOKEH Introduction
33. 33 Custom visualizations Dashboards Streaming/ Animations Charts T ools Widgets Maps Hover Bokeh
35. 35 http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh/ rbokeh
36. 36 rbokeh demo
37. 37 • Twitter: ch_doig • Github: chdoig • Site: chdoig.github.io • Email: cdoig@continuum.io Keep in touch!
38. 38 Q & A Thanks!