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IPython needs to be called Jupyter asap or else everyone would think this is a Python only application which happily as an R guy it is not.

Love that there are so many "good" open source options in the ecco-system and people will not only show the work BUT also include the cleaning and tidying up of the data which is equally important in my opinion.



We're planning to release IPython 3.0 some time around the end of this year, and after that, we'll be focussing on splitting the project up and renaming it (the bits that run Python code will still be IPython).


This is huge. I keep wishing they would hurry that renaming process up. People from the R side may have less motivation though, given that more people seem to use the more publication-focussed knitr approach to reproducible computing.


Knitr is better for me for creating PDFs and Word Documents (sadly needed) and I think knitr with RMarkdown and pandocc is amazing and best in class with code chunks.

I like IPython NOT for the reproduction but I like interacting with my script with cells. If I was working with a team I would prefer IPython's approach.




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