R help - Mar 2006 - can R be run without installation on to a computer

I have been trying for a year to get approval to install R on a work 
computer and am not optimistic of a positive reply in the near future. I 
was considering whether an option might be to run R from a CD/USB stick.  I 
looked through the installation manual but could see no mention of this option.

If it is possible to run R from a CD or a USB stick without installation to 
a computer, I would appreciate direction to information or advice on how 
this might be done,

Any assistance is appreciated,

regards

Bob Green

"If it is possible to run R from a CD or a USB stick without installation
to
a computer"

YES

On 3/31/06, Bob Green <bgreen@dyson.brisnet.org.au>
wrote:
>
> I have been trying for a year to get approval to install R on a work
> computer and am not optimistic of a positive reply in the near future. I
> was considering whether an option might be to run R from a CD/USB
> stick.  I
> looked through the installation manual but could see no mention of this
> option.
>
> If it is possible to run R from a CD or a USB stick without installation
> to
> a computer, I would appreciate direction to information or advice on how
> this might be done,
>
> Any assistance is appreciated,
>
> regards
>
> Bob Green
>
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Bob Green wrote:
> I have been trying for a year to get approval to install R on a work 
> computer and am not optimistic of a positive reply in the near future. I 
> was considering whether an option might be to run R from a CD/USB stick.  I
> looked through the installation manual but could see no mention of this
option.
> 
> If it is possible to run R from a CD or a USB stick without installation to
> a computer, I would appreciate direction to information or advice on how 
> this might be done,
If the term 'CD' here includes a DVD, then you might look at Quantian, 
which is a Linux variant that boots off a DVD and includes R as well as 
many if not all CRAN and Bioconductor packages.

That might be one way to get around those nasty IT guys ;-D

HTH,

Jim

> 
> Any assistance is appreciated,
> 
> regards
> 
> Bob Green
> 
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On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 06:45 +1000, Bob Green wrote:
> I have been trying for a year to get approval to install R on a work 
> computer and am not optimistic of a positive reply in the near future. I 
> was considering whether an option might be to run R from a CD/USB stick.  I
> looked through the installation manual but could see no mention of this
option.
> 
> If it is possible to run R from a CD or a USB stick without installation to
> a computer, I would appreciate direction to information or advice on how 
> this might be done,
> 
> Any assistance is appreciated,
> 
> regards
> 
> Bob Green
Your e-mail headers suggest that you are on Windows, thus you might want
to review this post by Prof. Ripley in a thread from 2004 addressing
this issue:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/41937.html

Alternatively, if you are comfortable running Linux, Dirk Eddelbuettel
has kindly provided Quantian:

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html

which is a Debian Linux based distribution that can run as a Live CD and
can be booted from the CD without having to actually install it.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz