At work I have no permission to install R. So, would anyone know whether it is possible to create a CD with a running R-installation for a windows(XP) pc? And of course, how to? Thank you for your help, Hans van Walen
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Hans van Walen wrote:> At work I have no permission to install R. So, would anyone know whether it > is possible to create a CD with a running R-installation for a windows(XP) > pc? And of course, how to?Yes, for a suitable definition of `CD'. (You need the extensions which allow long file names and lower-case chars.) You will need some disc area where you unpack the files from the R installer. Then just write the top-level directory (rw1091 or whatever) and all its contents to CD-R. The Windows installation (but not the Unix one) is relocatable as it only uses relative file paths. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
You can simply start a Linux live distribution including R (for example bio-knoppix) from CD, but you have to restart pc with cd inside. A.S. ---------------------------- Alessandro Semeria Models and Simulations Laboratory Montecatini Environmental Research Center (Edison Group), Via Ciro Menotti 48, 48023 Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy Tel. +39 544 536811 Fax. +39 544 538663 E-mail: alessandro.semeria at cramont.it
Hi! Make a isntallation of R on a PC where it is allowed. Install all packages you need. Burn the installation folder (rw1091) on the CD. Start R by clicking on Rgui.exe in the bin folder (rw1091/bin). Or set a path on the command line to (CD drive letter) :\rw1091\bin Or create a shortcut. This should work. Hope it helps. Eryk Ps. If you need to install afterwards package you have to set R_LIBS to a writable drive. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/27/2004 at 3:54 PM Hans van Walen wrote:>>>At work I have no permission to install R. So, would anyone know >>>whether it >>>is possible to create a CD with a running R-installation for a >>>windows(XP) >>>pc? And of course, how to? >>> >>>Thank you for your help, >>>Hans van Walen >>> >>>______________________________________________ >>>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list >>>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>>PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.htmlDipl. bio-chem. Eryk Witold Wolski @ MPI-Moleculare Genetic Ihnestrasse 63-73 14195 Berlin 'v' tel: 0049-30-83875219 / \ mail: wolski at molgen.mpg.de ---W-W---- http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski
Try http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html. It seems it works just fine, and R is already on it... However I only played with it a little. Mihai Nica Jackson State University 155 B Parkhurst Dr. Jackson, MS 39202 601 969 5423 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hans van Walen" <hans at vanwalen.com> To: <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 8:54 AM Subject: [R] Running R from CD?> At work I have no permission to install R. So, would anyone know whetherit> is possible to create a CD with a running R-installation for a windows(XP) > pc? And of course, how to? > > Thank you for your help, > Hans van Walen > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide!http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html>