Good afternoon Cognos-ers!

I'm hoping someone has solved this problem before.

I'm getting underway with Jupyter using the R Kernel for the first time.

The notebook I'm trying to create needs certain packages installed.  One of them is dplyr.

In the notebook I issue this command in a cell:

!install.packages('dplyr')

I get back this in the Notebook:



In the Docker log for the process associated with my session I get this:



It appears that the "make" command isn't installed within the Jupyter container.  I tried updating "additional_os_packages.txt" and rebuilding, but that hasn't helped.



Does anyone have some suggestions or advice?

Thanks a lot!

Rich





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Richard Chester
Director of Business Intelligence
LPA Software Solutions
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#CognosAnalyticswithWatson

Probably not the most elegant solution (and I would be last person to claim to be an R developer) but the following worked for me with some benign errors that may be resolved by someone much smarter than me:

devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr")

library(dplyr)

starwars %>%
filter(species == "Droid")

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Original Message:
Sent: Thu August 19, 2021 03:47 PM
From: Richard Chester
Subject: Jupyter Notebooks using R Kernel question - cannot install a package

Good afternoon Cognos-ers!

I'm hoping someone has solved this problem before.

I'm getting underway with Jupyter using the R Kernel for the first time.

The notebook I'm trying to create needs certain packages installed.  One of them is dplyr.

In the notebook I issue this command in a cell:

!install.packages('dplyr')

I get back this in the Notebook:



In the Docker log for the process associated with my session I get this:



It appears that the "make" command isn't installed within the Jupyter container.  I tried updating "additional_os_packages.txt" and rebuilding, but that hasn't helped.



Does anyone have some suggestions or advice?

Thanks a lot!

Rich





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Richard Chester
Director of Business Intelligence
LPA Software Solutions
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#CognosAnalyticswithWatson

Hi David,

Thank you for the reply.  Unfortunately, when I issue the first command (devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr")) I receive fatal errors.

I'll continue troubleshooting to see if I can get your suggested solution to work.  And hopefully others who have worked with the R Kernel will chime in with thoughts and ideas too.

Thanks again!

Rich

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Richard Chester
Director of Business Intelligence
LPA Software Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri August 20, 2021 12:00 PM
From: DAVID WARNER
Subject: Jupyter Notebooks using R Kernel question - cannot install a package

Probably not the most elegant solution (and I would be last person to claim to be an R developer) but the following worked for me with some benign errors that may be resolved by someone much smarter than me:

devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr")

library(dplyr)

starwars %>%
filter(species == "Droid")

------------------------------
DAVID WARNER

Original Message:
Sent: Thu August 19, 2021 03:47 PM
From: Richard Chester
Subject: Jupyter Notebooks using R Kernel question - cannot install a package

Good afternoon Cognos-ers!

I'm hoping someone has solved this problem before.

I'm getting underway with Jupyter using the R Kernel for the first time.

The notebook I'm trying to create needs certain packages installed.  One of them is dplyr.

In the notebook I issue this command in a cell:

!install.packages('dplyr')

I get back this in the Notebook:



In the Docker log for the process associated with my session I get this:



It appears that the "make" command isn't installed within the Jupyter container.  I tried updating "additional_os_packages.txt" and rebuilding, but that hasn't helped.



Does anyone have some suggestions or advice?

Thanks a lot!

Rich





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Richard Chester
Director of Business Intelligence
LPA Software Solutions
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#CognosAnalyticswithWatson

Just a quick follow up to this post:

IBM Support has acknowledged that the issue I'm seeing is a bug in the 11.2.0 version of Jupyter Notebooks.  A fix is targeted for the 11.2.1 release.

Rich

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Richard Chester
Director of Business Intelligence
LPA Software Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu August 19, 2021 03:47 PM
From: Richard Chester
Subject: Jupyter Notebooks using R Kernel question - cannot install a package

Good afternoon Cognos-ers!

I'm hoping someone has solved this problem before.

I'm getting underway with Jupyter using the R Kernel for the first time.

The notebook I'm trying to create needs certain packages installed.  One of them is dplyr.

In the notebook I issue this command in a cell:

!install.packages('dplyr')

I get back this in the Notebook:



In the Docker log for the process associated with my session I get this:



It appears that the "make" command isn't installed within the Jupyter container.  I tried updating "additional_os_packages.txt" and rebuilding, but that hasn't helped.



Does anyone have some suggestions or advice?

Thanks a lot!

Rich





------------------------------
Richard Chester
Director of Business Intelligence
LPA Software Solutions
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#CognosAnalyticswithWatson