[R] R on Android

[peter dalgaard]

On Sep 12, 2012, at 14:24 , Simon Fry wrote:

> Hello again
> 
> I tried to do everything how described on the page:
> 
> http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:android
> 
> So, i pushed the three files in the folder /sdcard/gcc
> Then i tried to extract the files with an android terminal with the
> commands:
> 
> cd /sdcard/gcc
> tar xjf android_gcc_r2a.tar.bz2
> tar xjf android_gcc_supplement.tar.bz2
> tar xjf android_R_r1a2.tar.bz2
> 
> But that didn't work. It says:
> 
> tar: not found
> 
> So i downloaded Archidroid and extract the files with this programm and
> that worked.

Or, you could have gotten yourself a copy of the tar program....
> 
> Well now i have in the folder /sdcard/gcc a lot of other folders, in fact:
> 
> arm-elf-linux-androideabi
> bin
> include
> lib
> libexec
> R
> share
> tmp
> 
> I tried then the following commands in the terminal:
> 
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/sdcard/gcc/lib
> export PATH=$PATH:/data/sdcard/gcc/bin
> 
> But this also didn't work. Here it says nothing, nothing happened.

Nothing is supposed to, that just sets a couple of variables.

> So my problem is, i have all the folders and data i need (well i think i
> have all), but i don't know how i can install them or run R.

What happens if you say 

bin/R

from the sdcard/gcc folder? 

(I have no specific knowledge about android, but that's how it would generally work in a unix-alike shell)

> Thanks again for help
> Simon
> 
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