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> From: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com>
> Date: February 1, 2010 9:59:34 AM PST
> To: Payam Minoofar <payam.minoofar@meissner.com>
> Subject: Re: iPad query
> 
> I'm fairly certain that this should mostly work.
> 
> You'll probably need to build gfortran on your own.
> 
> I don't know the state of ARM in the GPL3 gcc line (Apple forked with the last GPL2 release, 4.2).
> 
> All apps in iPhone land (same with iPad) are sandboxed and can't access each other.  The spreadsheets and other documents are being shared in a special documents folder which all apps can access, so R would be able to access the spreadsheets but not the iWork application itself.  I'm not sure if there will be APIs to read the spreadsheet data in other applications, but that is something worth investigating.  If there isn't and you need that functionality, you should file a bug report.
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> On Feb 1, 2010, at 09:35, Payam Minoofar wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jeremy,
>> 
>> I am attaching a recent exchange from the R special interest group mailing list. (I assume you know what the R statistics platform is.) You are the only person I know of inside Apple. Perhaps you can relay this to the relevant sources. It would be so nice to have tools like this on the iPad.
>> 
>> Payam
>> 
>> On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Matthew Cohen wrote:
>> 
>>> I think it might be worthwhile to think about getting R to work on  
>>> the iPad, especially if it can access iWork/Numbers spreadsheets...   
>>> I realize someone brought up trying this on the iPhone a couple of  
>>> years back, and no one was able to figure out what the point would  
>>> be.  But R on the iPad seems like it would be genuinely useful...
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure that I have much to contribute in terms of making this  
>>> happen, but I'm wondering if anyone who is familiar with the iPhone  
>>> SDK (especially anyone who has played around with 3.2) knows how  
>>> feasible it would be...
>> 
>> Show us an open-source C and Fortran compiler for the iPad.
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> Heritage Laboratories
>> West Hartford, CT
>> 
>> 
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>> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:00:31 -0800
>> From: Byron Ellis <ellis@stat.harvard.edu>
>> To: David Winsemius <dwinsemius@comcast.net>
>> Cc: r-sig-mac@stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] iPad?
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>> Erm... Not so difficult, the iPhone toolchain is using gcc and it
>> wouldn't be hard to make an ARM gfortran... I think Simon did on a
>> lark when the iPhone came out.
>> 
>> The real problem is actually getting it onto the App Store since R is
>> not allowed given current rules (no programming languages).
>> Interestingly, if you were to use R to build an application that was
>> NOT a programming language, that would be fine. (there are Smalltalk
>> and Mono-based Apps in the store).
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