Jupyterlab Markdown

JupyterLab, the next-generation web-based user interface for Python and R from Project Jupyter. It is still a beta release, but stable for daily use. One of the cool features of JupyterLab is that it is the go to browser based app for classic Jupyter Notebook, file browser for your computer files, text editor and a terminal for you. The plan from Project Jupyter’s plan is to replace the classic Jupyter Notebook with Jupyter Lab when it is mature and reaches version 1.0.

JupyterLab includes a text editor. We can create a new text file from the launcher, rename it by giving it the.md extension, and edit it: Let's right-click on the Markdown file. A contextual menu appears: We can add a new panel that renders the Markdown file in real-time: We can also attach an IPython console to our Markdown file. Markdown previews. When I am writing something like this blog post in markdown, JupyterLab lets me see a live version of it. It even updates as you type. JupyterLab was built with the explicit goal of encouraging the development of extensions. Already, there have been some quite nifty extensions produced. Table of Contents extension. How does the integration with RStudio Server Pro and Jupyter Notebooks work? In RStudio Server Pro 1.2.5 and newer versions, you can. “Text can be added to Jupyter Notebooks using Markdown cells. You can change the cell type to Markdown by using the Cell menu, the toolbar, or the key shortcut m.Markdown is a popular markup language that is a superset of HTML.

? JupyterLab is Ready for Users ? https://t.co/aOCrcuJEtQ

— Project Jupyter (@ProjectJupyter) February 20, 2018

How to Install JupyterLab using conda?

How to Install JupyterLab using pip?

How to Launch JupyterLab from terminal?

If you don’t want to launch JupyterLab from terminal, you can launch JupyterLab from Anaconda-Navigator if you use Anaconda.

I have Jupyter Notebooks for Python and R Markdown for R. With the cool new features of JupyterLab, would like to test out JupyterLab for both Python and R. JupyterLab looks really cool at the first impression. I could easily launch it from the terminal by typing “jupyter lab”. Voila! it opened a tab on the Chrome browser on my Macbook.

One of the cool things JupyterLab did was that it automatically recognized that I have multiple versions of Python (2.7 and 3) and multiple virtual enviornments of Python. And JupyterLab made each of these available on both as notebooks and as IPython consoles. I was pretty impressed by that as I was initially worried about it when I installed JupyterLab from conda. One thing I still need to fiddle with is the icons for my different Python versions and virtual environment looks funky. I need to figure out the reason for it. However, both notebook and consoles work fine.

If you don’t want to install, but just tryout the features of JupyterLab, you can use
Binder: JupyterLab Demo on your browser.

Can’t wait to try out other cool new features of JupyterLab.

Collapsible code cells! Drag-and-drop cell rearrangement! Side-by-side views of multiple notebooks! Copy/paste cells between notebooks! Clean linearized execution logs! Extract single cells to create responsive dashboards!

This is amazing. https://t.co/VcU349zNKq

— Jake VanderPlas (@jakevdp) February 20, 2018

Markdown Cell Python

If you are on a Mac, substitute command for control. Don't type the + (it means press both keys at once).

Shortcuts when in either command mode (outside the cells) or edit mode (inside a cell):

Shift + Enter run selected cell or cells - if no cells below, insert a code cell below
Ctrl + B toggle hide/show left sidebar
Ctrl + S save and checkpoint
Ctrl + Shift + S save as
Ctrl + F find

Shortcuts when in command mode (outside the cells, no blinking cursor):

Enter enter edit mode in the active cell
Scroll up with the up arrow
Scroll down with the down arrow
A insert a new cell above the active cell
B insert a new cell below the active cell
M make the active cell a Markdown cell
Y make the active cell a code cell
Shift + Up Arrow select the current cell and the cell above
Shift + Down Arrow select the current cell and the cell below
Ctrl + A select all cells
X cut the selected cell or cells
C copy the selected cell or cells
V paste the cell(s) which were copied or cut most recently
Shift + M merge multiple selected cells into one cell
DD (D twice) delete the active cell
00 (Zero twice) restart the kernel
Z undo most recent command mode action