[R] installation

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Iasonas Lamprianou wrote:

> hi all,
>
> is there a cd-rom image with a full R pre-installation which I can 
> give to my students so that if they want to run R on their computer, 
> they will be able to run it from the cd-rom without having to 
> install it on their computer. That way, they can have a 'protable' R 
> package installation in their bags, and they can use it on any 
> machine. Is this possible?

Well, no as there are an unlimited number of OSes in the world and R 
does not run on them all.

But if you mean under Windows, this is covered by the rw-FAQ -- but 
these days I would use a USB memory stick rather than a CD-ROM. See
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Can-I-run-R-from-a-CD-or-USB-drive_003f

(I don't think this is easily possible on Mac OS X: various paths are 
hardcoded in many places so it needs to be installed by 
/Library/Frameworks.)

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> Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou
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