Ending support for R in Kaggle Notebooks | Kaggle
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In the coming days, we will stop supporting R in Kaggle Notebooks. This post explains why and what it means for your work.
Why we're doing this
R has been part of Kaggle Notebooks (back when they were called Scripts) since 2015, and the R community has written some of the most-loved notebooks on the site. Over the past few years, though, usage has fallen sharply.
Keeping an R environment secure and up to date takes ongoing work, and our R image has fallen well behind. Rather than offer an environment we can't maintain properly, we've decided to retire it and put that effort into the Python environment that almost 100% of sessions use.
What's changing
- You will no longer be able to create new R or RMarkdown notebooks, or switch an existing notebook's language to R.
- **Existing R notebooks:** You can still view an R notebook with their code and outputs, but they can no longer be run, edited or forked.
- **Learn:** the R Guide will be removed.
- **Competitions:** Code competitions no longer accept R notebook submissions.
What you can do
- **Download your notebooks.** You can download any R notebook from the editor (File → Download) to keep a copy.
- **Run R somewhere else.** Kaggle datasets work with any environment. You can use the Kaggle CLI or download the files directly, then work locally.
Thank you to everyone who has shared R work on Kaggle over the years.
14 Comments
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Is there a way to directly download/view notebooks? File -> Download Notebook never loads on my computer, so I have to go to Open in Colab, then download it from there.
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I’m really sad about the decision because I truly loved R, and it was a fundamental part of my work in data science
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I use R, and new notebooks were created with R as the default language. Now that R is no longer supported, every new notebook I create gives me the following error: "Unsupported languageName: r".
I cannot even switch to Python because the session settings no longer provide an option to select a different language. I suspect this is a bug, and I would appreciate your guidance on how to create new notebooks and change my account's default language to Python.
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This is happening to me too…
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Posted 4 days ago
Hey Kaggle staff here, are you able to create a new notebook with the folllowing link (in the meanwhile): kaggle.com/code/new?languageId=8
or clearing your local storage.
we are currently working on a fix
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Posted 3 days ago
follow up we deployed a fix to resolve this issue. please let us know if you are still facing any issues
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It's been resolved. Thanks!
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You should have given us advance notice so we could wrap up our ongoing work! I woke up yesterday only to find that my scripts no longer worked!
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Very disappoining . Especially with such short notice.
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The end of an era 💔
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!Image 3 However, this is most certainly the graph that swayed the Kaggle team: !Image 4
In 2015 one-third of the notebooks published on Kaggle were written in R. In 2025 that had dropped down to just 1.5%, and for 2026 it is currently at less than 0.9%.
As for **"Run R somewhere else"**, now may be a good time to download Positron, _The Data Science IDE_ and work locally.
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R Guide was already deleted?
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Another fact for more context: R moved from #13 to #8 on the TIOBE index over the last year (Highest Position since 2007) and packages published to CRAN are at an all-time high.
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Please share the end date. We need to celebrate the farewell
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Hi Jordi, Your notebook isn't visible -- I was coming to borrow it :)
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My fault. Sorry! Try now.