[R] R on a flash drive

[Williams Scott]

I often run R via a Ceedo virtualisation on a USB drive
(http://www.ceedo.com/) with XP. It costs a few dollars to it this way,
but is a very low stress installation and has worked flawlessly, albeit
a little slower (barely noticeable). Very handy if you are often working
on various machines without administrator rights (as I do in clinic) -
just plug in your USB and go directly back to your project. It then
removes any trace of you (so they say) when you log out. And you can use
it for other software (within limits though) you might want to carry
around.

Hope that helps.

Scott

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Scott Williams MD
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Melbourne
Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: John Kane [mailto:jrkrideau at yahoo.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 12:28 AM
To: John Kane; Erin Hodgess; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] R on a flash drive

Oops meant to send this to the list.
--- John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> 
> --- Erin Hodgess <hodgess at gator.dt.uh.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Dear R People:
> > 
> > Has anyone run R from a flash drive, please?
> > 
> > If so, how did it work, please?
> 
> Yes I run R, occasionally, on a USB with no problem
> on
> WindowsXP. It works well, albeit a bit more slowly
> than from the hard drive which is as you would
> expect.
> 
> The last time I upgraded the USB (to 2.5.0 ?) I
> simply
> downloaded R and installed it on the USB drive
> rather
> than the C: drive and then installed all my usual
> optional packages using the normal Rgui interface. 
> 
> I usually have R, Tinn-R and portable versions of
> OpenOoffice.org, and Firefox installed on the USB.  
> 
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