[R] R, RStudio, and a server for my iPad.

[Hadley Wickham]

You can not type _anything_ into Rstudio if you connect to it on the
ipad. In other words, Rstudio is not currently usable on the ipad.
Hadley

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:08 PM, John Sorkin
<JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
> Hadley,
> First, thank you for replying to my question. Are you saying that the iPad
> browser will not allow me to type the character string :/ into a browser
> window? I am not sure exactly what you are trying to tell me. Please forgive
> my lack of insight! Can you explain a but further?
> Do you have any suggestions for a solution that will allow me to access R on
> my iPad?
> John
>
>
> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
> Professor of Medicine
> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and
> Geriatric Medicine
> Baltimore VA Medical Center
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> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
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>>>> Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> 4/11/2014 6:01 PM >>>
>
> Even if you do get Rstudio running on a server, unfortunately it won't
> help. The ipad doesn't support quite enough html to get a fully
> functional Rstudio interface - almost everything works but you can't
> type anything :/  It would be possible to fix this, but fundamentally
> we don't believe that the Rstudio interface is the right choice for an
> ipad.
>
> Hadley
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:00 PM, John Sorkin
> <JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>> I bemoan the fact that I can not run R or Rstudio on my iPad. A possible
>> work around would be to set up a server (probably under Linux), and get the
>> server to present a web page that to would allow me to run R on the server.
>> I have searched the web for a clear, simple answer on how to do this but can
>> not find one. There are answers, but not for someone who has not built a
>> Linux server. Can someone provide either a reference to, or a short
>> explanation of how I can build the server, get R or RStudio to run on it,
>> and get the server and its R or RStudio program available to me on my iPad?
>> I can probably find guidance on how to build an Apache server under Linux.
>> Thank you,
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
>> Professor of Medicine
>> Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics
>> University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and
>> Geriatric Medicine
>> Baltimore VA Medical Center
>> 10 North Greene Street
>> GRECC (BT/18/GR)
>> Baltimore, MD 21201-1524
>> (Phone) 410-605-7119
>> (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing)
>>
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