Test .Rmd notebooks within Jupyter using online mybinder.org service

Hey @mwouts,

Was reminded of your tool thanks to your comment here: https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues/1020#issuecomment-406168864

I was wondering if you have heard of https://mybinder.org/ and, if so, if you had considered using the service to render .Rmd notebooks within Jupyter in an interactive way on Binder without converting to .ipynb. You can link to specific .ipynb within Binder and perhaps it can also work with .Rmd notebooks using nbrmd? I could give it a go sometime this weekend, but I would appreciate your thoughts in general.

Cheers, A.

[mwouts]

I’ve just pushed a simple Rmd R sample, that works well with binder/nbrmd/jupyter.

Thanks @RaoOfPhysics for suggesting this, it was very helpful. I’ll definitely use binder to provide live examples for the nbrmd / nbsrc packages!

[betatim]

Do you think I should report that at the binder project?

Not sure. It might be worth mentioning in https://github.com/jupyter/repo2docker which is the tool that converts repositories to containers. However we are trying very hard not to invent any new standards or formats so there is a high chance that the answer is “just leave it as is”. However if no one ever brings things like this to us we will never add support for them 😃