[R] Is R portable?

[Peter Dalgaard]

michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> I opened this hoping someone had installed R on windows mobile or simbian.... :(
>   
I think that's Symbian with a 'y'.

The toolchain availability tends to get in the way. Linux-based gadgets
could prove easier. I do wonder from time to time whether there really
is a market for R on cellphones...
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>
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of Duncan Murdoch
> Sent: Tue 04/12/2007 10:54 PM
> To: Tom Backer Johnsen
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Is R portable?
>
>
>
> On 04/12/2007 5:25 PM, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:
>   
>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, John Kane wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I simply installed R onto a USB stick, downloaded my
>>>> normal packages to it and it works fine under Windows.
>>>>         
>>> Yes, on Windows, but
>>>
>>> 1) There are other OSes,
>>>
>>> 2) This didn't just happen: it needed some careful design, including
>>> some caching to make it run fast from a USB disk.
>>>       
>> Nice to discover good planning.  Am I then correct in my
>> understanding: Installing R under Windows does not require any
>> registry entries, the installation is essentially to unpack the
>> necessary files in the correct directories?
>>     
>
> Yes.  It does record some information in the registry, but that's purely
> optional.  The only problem you're likely to run into is using external
> software with R, that might look in the registry to find where R was
> installed.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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