Support xeus-r kernel

[ryanlovett]

I'm converting an old LaTeX-based book covering the fundamentals of R and it'd be wonderful if myst could run live R-based kernels. xeus-r appears to be actively developed by QuantStack and it supports the code I'd like to run in the textbook. There is also jupyterlite-webr-kernel which I'm not as familiar with.

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I've tried configuring myst to use xeus-r but the kernel connection fails very early on. I've since learned that this is expected at this point in development.

Cc'ing @fperez as requested.

[stevejpurves]

Hi @ryanlovett,

A WASM based kernel would definitely require additional work to support but a non-WASM jupyter kernel should just work via configuration. If it works in jupyterlab it should work here.

Do you have a repo with your attempt at configuring the xeus-r kernel? and how does that contrast against setting up the IRkernel?