Douglas Bates
2007-Dec-17 16:47 UTC
[Rd] The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program
There was recently a question on the R-help list about the eee pc. I had a related question about the XO laptop from OLPC (laptop.org). Has anyone looked at the development environment sufficiently to determine if it would be possible to create an executable image for R? The laptop itself only supports Python, Javascript, etc. but it is running a real Linux operating system.
Peter Dalgaard
2007-Dec-17 17:03 UTC
[Rd] The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program
Douglas Bates wrote:> There was recently a question on the R-help list about the eee pc. I > had a related question about the XO laptop from OLPC (laptop.org). > Has anyone looked at the development environment sufficiently to > determine if it would be possible to create an executable image for R? > The laptop itself only supports Python, Javascript, etc. but it is > running a real Linux operating system. > >It is Fedora based and x86 compatible, so it could be as simple as "yum install R". The potential pitfall is if that pulls in so many dependencies that you overflow the 1GB solid-state disk. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2007-Dec-17 18:02 UTC
[Rd] The XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program
On 17 December 2007 at 18:03, Peter Dalgaard wrote: | Douglas Bates wrote: | > There was recently a question on the R-help list about the eee pc. I | > had a related question about the XO laptop from OLPC (laptop.org). | > Has anyone looked at the development environment sufficiently to | > determine if it would be possible to create an executable image for R? | > The laptop itself only supports Python, Javascript, etc. but it is | > running a real Linux operating system. | > | > | It is Fedora based and x86 compatible, so it could be as simple as "yum | install R". | The potential pitfall is if that pulls in so many dependencies that you | overflow the 1GB solid-state disk. AFAIK you can emulate the "sugar" operating system used on the OLPC/XO on Ubuntu and other Linux variants. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_on_Ubuntu_Linux Maybe Doug can get Sugar running on his dvd player? Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.