Quickstart Guide
Want to get started using COMET as soon as possible? It’s as easy as 1-2-3!
- Choose a JupyterHub to launch the COMET service on. We currently support three options:
- JupyterOpen for students and faculty at UBC
- PIMS’ Syzygy for non-UBC-affiliates and others
- Google Collab for people with a Google account
Tip
We recommend JupyterOpen for UBC students, since it has all of the necessary packages pre-loaded for you.
- Other hubs may need to install packages in order for some notebooks to work properly.
- Click on the “Launch COMET” button on the top-right of the navigation bar on this page:
And select your JupyterHub
- Log in using your hub credentials, wait for the project to load, then open a notebook under the
comet-project
directory!
You’re all ready to go! You can see more details in our using COMET guide.
Using Locally
Want to run COMET on your own computer? Don’t have a reliable internet connection? Want to be a power user or have a favourite IDE? You don’t have to rely on a JupyterHub to use COMET.
- Install Jupyter or RStudio locally on your own computer, including R and any other packages necessary.
- Select “Launch Locally” from the “Launch COMET” menu and download the repository files.
- Unzip the files and open them in your local IDE.
You’re all ready to go!