Displaying ggplot2 graphs from R in Jupyter

Question

When I create a plot in Jupyter using the ggplot2 R package, I get a link to the chart that says "View PDF" instead of the chart being presented inline.

I know that traditionally in IPython Notebook you were able to show the charts inline using the %matplotlib magic function. Does Jupyter have something similar for R and ggplot2?

What do I need to do to show the graph inline versus as a link to a PDF?

Answer 1

There are currently some issues with producing ggplot2 outputs using the IRkermel. There is an open issue on GitHub about it. The only workaround at the moment appears to be using PDF, jpg, png outputs for your plots.

Answer 2

You can show the graphs inline with this option.

options(jupyter.plot_mimetypes = 'image/png')

You can also produce pdf files as you would regularly in R, e.g.

pdf("test.pdf")
ggplot(data.frame(a=rnorm(100,1,10)),aes(a))+geom_histogram()
dev.off()