legacy-notebook-editor.qmd

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title: "Legacy Notebook Editor"
description: "Use the Code OSS based notebook editor for a notebook experience that seamlessly integrates with the Positron IDE."
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You can create and edit `.ipynb` files in Positron just as you would in other editors.

For a general introduction to working with Jupyter Notebooks, see the [VS Code Jupyter Notebooks documentation](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-notebooks).

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### Setting up your environment

Positron comes bundled with Jupyter kernel support for R and Python. Once you've [configured a Python or R environment](managing-interpreters.qmd) for Positron, you do not need to install any additional dependencies into your environment before using a notebook.

If an environment installed on your computer isn't available in Positron, you may want to read more about how Positron discovers [Python installations](python-installations.qmd) and [R installations](r-installations.qmd).

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![The Legacy Notebook Editor action bar with the kernel selector highlighted, showing Python 3.12.8 as the selected interpreter.](images/jupyter-notebooks-kernel-selector.png){fig-alt="Notebook Editor action bar with the kernel selector button highlighted, displaying Python 3.12.8 as the current kernel."}

You can manually select a different interpreter for the notebook by selecting the **Kernel Selector** button in the notebook editor action bar or by running the *Notebook: Select Notebook Kernel* command from the Command Palette.

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