As I recall, the major blocker is that R links against a number of other
things (notably BLAS, pcre, etc) so while technically possible (?) I
suppose, the universe of things you'd have to compile over and then get
working is much larger than just the R internals.
I think most people who consider this (including me years ago, as well as
the poster of Gabor's message to rdevel) hit that point and then go try to
find a less herculean task to pursue.
~G
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:57 AM G?bor Cs?rdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This was some time ago:
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-May/066724.html
>
> So probably not hopeless, but I would think it is a lot of work.
>
> Gabor
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:17 AM Todd Wilder <wildert at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone attempted to compile R (probably without any OS bindings)
to
> > WebAssembly / Emscripten? If so, how far did you get? (would be crazy
> > awesome if you could get all the way to a ggplot bitmap output). If
not,
> is
> > this a waste of time or is there some daylight to doing this?
> >
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