[R] Running R on read-only file system, without temporary directory

[Gabor Grothendieck]

If you are willing to do a bit of work you could look into linking R
to an embedded file system in RAM -- maybe whefs.

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Gábor Csárdi<csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to do run R without having write permissions to any
> directory on the system. It seems that I need to modify the R source
> code for this, to make R start without creating a temporary directory.
>
> So far, so good. But should I expect any more complications? Does R
> really need the temporary directory that much?
>
> Thanks,
> Gabor
>
> --
> Gabor Csardi <Gabor.Csardi at unil.ch>     UNIL DGM
>
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