zeppelin "r interpreter not found"

Question

I have installed local apache zeppelin using this link The examples in that very same installation show usage of r but when i run any of them i get: "r interpreter not found". This is very strange the same installation which shows example notebook of "R Notebook" does not contain a zeppelin interpreter!!? when i click the "Interpreters" tab I do not see any r interpreter. I saw there is a project zeppelin with r but i don't get it. How come the very same zeppelin installation which has r notebook examples does not work? why do I need to clone a repository named Zeppelin With R? isn't R bundled already with zeppelin??

Answer 1

R support is not bundled in the binary by default.

It can be compiled in few steps

git clone https://github.com/apache/zeppelin.git
cd zeppelin
mvn clean package -Pr -DskipTests
# or using another R support with 
# mvn clean package -Psparkr -DskipTests

The R tutorial comes together with the binary is a snapshot of the notebook include the execution result/graph.