[R-SIG-Mac] R mobile: iOS

[Marc Schwartz]

On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Etienne Low-Décarie wrote:

> Good day,
> 
> iOS devices (iPhone,iPod and iPad) can be amazing tools, expanding the realm of R usage (to the field even!), and it is already possible to run R on a host computer through command line (through SSH apps for example, with no script editor or graphical output).  I was wondering if R related software was being developed for this operating system.  I am posting these suggestions to this list, as porting software to iOS is similar to porting software to OS X.
> 
> Suggested R related iOS software include:
> 
> •Directly ported R-help file
> •Library of graph examples
> 
> •R script editor
> •R mobile app based on similar software available for MatLab (http://www.mathworks.com/mobile/), desired for Mathematica (http://quernstone.com/archives/2008/07/mathematica-for.html)
> •R mobile helper app (on host computer)
> 
> •native R mobile (a crippled native R, SpaceTime pulls off something similar, http://www.spacetime.us/) ?
> 
> 
> Thank you and have an excellent day,


See these two recent posts:

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-May/240669.html

  https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-June/240901.html


Nothing new since then, but the logical model for R would be a client/server approach, along the lines of what you reference for MATLAB or what has been done for Wolfram|Alpha.

I am guessing that SpaceTime gets around the interpreted language limitation by being a special purpose 'enhanced calculator', whereas R is a fully functional programming language. 

HTH,

Marc Schwartz