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In addition to what I've already said, R Notebooks have native support for widgets, autogenerated TOC, and themes (although all of those can be added to Jupyter I believe). There's also the meta-support from being embedded in an IDE. (package management/variable explorer/etc)

Here's an example of one of my notebooks with all 3 things: http://minimaxir.com/notebooks/breach-network/

It's definitely a better fit for R.

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Thanks for the example! That definitely includes a bunch of things I think Jupyter should have, but "purists" might consider out of scope (theming, ToC, something as simple as being able to hide cells interactively).

Currently, Jupyter works well for development, but the result is often hard to read because code gets in the way. (unless you use nbconvert, but that sometimes defeats the purpose)

Jupyter notebooks have widgets too, created with combination of Python and JavaScript.

Some widgets are pretty advanced, I saw a presentation by a developer from Bloomberg, in NYC, about their bqplot widget library.

https://github.com/bloomberg/bqplot

They even have gamepad/controller support, which allows dynamic interactions with widgets.

Edit: Live demo of the project from PyData London 2016: https://youtu.be/eVET9IYgbao?t=27m45s

And this depends on ipywidgets (or at least similar - Syvian Corlayhas developed both).

These widgets support embedding in other contexts like static HTML pages or Sphinx docs [1]. An example can be seen on the docs [2]

[1]:http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/embedding.html

[2]:http://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/Widget%2...

I believe you can also embed one inside an IDE. I am pretty sure you can do this with PyCharm.

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