@didiercrunch had a bit of spare time this afternoon and got a little bit excited trying to use clojurescript in a jupyter notebook following this https://github.com/notablemind/jupyter-nodejs

I had himera running locally on localhost:8080, another caveat is that himera seems to be pretty much abandonware.

Cool, I'll look at that tomorrow

not quite there in terms of doing anything complex, you can define simple functions but I'm not sure on how to deal with dependencies (again)

@michaellindon is this kinda the grad library that you would want to use in Clojure? https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/numDeriv/versions/2016.8-1/topics/grad

if not, could you please point me to an R one if there is one?

@gigasquid this R library appears to be only performing numerical approximations to the derivative. Check out http://www.juliadiff.org this is a central location for the automatic differentiation being done in the Julia language

I'm not familiar with any automatic differentiation tools in native R

@michaellindon thanks - I was interested in the graal/R interop but unfortunately not that useful in this case