[R] R under Pocket PC

[Tim Cutts]

On 9 Nov 2004, at 12:27 pm, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Lars Strand wrote:
>
>> Will R run under Windows Pocket PC?
>
> We don't know!
>
> There are no binary versions of R for that platform, but perhaps you 
> could
> find a suitable compiler and manage to build the sources.
>
> Outside pure mathematics it is usually very hard to establish that
> something cannot be done (and it can be very hard in pure mathematics,
> too).

Do PocketPCs generally have enough memory to run something as big as R? 
  A standard R install requires a lot of storage space, by PDA 
standards...

Technically, I don't suppose there's much to stop R running on some 
PDAs, especially those based on Linux like the Sharp Zaurus, other than 
storage and memory requirements.  If there's a Qt graphical interface 
available for R, you could even get graphics working on the Zaurus, 
potentially.  The Windows API on Pocket PC is quite a reduced subset 
compared to full Windows, so you might have problems with that.  PalmOS 
would probably be right out.  :-)

Tim

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Dr Tim Cutts
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