hi all, is there a cd-rom image with a full R pre-installation which I can give to my students so that if they want to run R on their computer, they will be able to run it from the cd-rom without having to install it on their computer. That way, they can have a 'protable' R package installation in their bags, and they can use it on any machine. Is this possible? Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation) Department of Education Sciences European University-Cyprus P.O. Box 22006 1516 Nicosia Cyprus Tel.: +357-22-713178 Fax: +357-22-590539 Honorary Research Fellow Department of Education The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Tel. 0044 161 275 3485 iasonas.lamprianou at manchester.ac.uk
Iasonas Lamprianou wrote:> hi all, > > is there a cd-rom image with a full R pre-installation which I can give to my students so that if they want to run R on their computer, they will be able to run it from the cd-rom without having to install it on their computer. That way, they can have a 'protable' R package installation in their bags, and they can use it on any machine. Is this possible?You can make it yourself: Install R and the required packages and burn the stuff on a CD. Finished. Uwe Ligges> Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou > > > Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation) > Department of Education Sciences > European University-Cyprus > P.O. Box 22006 > 1516 Nicosia > Cyprus > Tel.: +357-22-713178 > Fax: +357-22-590539 > > > Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Education > The University of Manchester > Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK > Tel. 0044 161 275 3485 > iasonas.lamprianou at manchester.ac.uk > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Iasonas Lamprianou wrote:> hi all, > > is there a cd-rom image with a full R pre-installation which I can > give to my students so that if they want to run R on their computer, > they will be able to run it from the cd-rom without having to > install it on their computer. That way, they can have a 'protable' R > package installation in their bags, and they can use it on any > machine. Is this possible?Well, no as there are an unlimited number of OSes in the world and R does not run on them all. But if you mean under Windows, this is covered by the rw-FAQ -- but these days I would use a USB memory stick rather than a CD-ROM. See http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Can-I-run-R-from-a-CD-or-USB-drive_003f (I don't think this is easily possible on Mac OS X: various paths are hardcoded in many places so it needs to be installed by /Library/Frameworks.)> > Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou > > > Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation) > Department of Education Sciences > European University-Cyprus > P.O. Box 22006 > 1516 Nicosia > Cyprus > Tel.: +357-22-713178 > Fax: +357-22-590539 > > > Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Education > The University of Manchester > Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK > Tel. 0044 161 275 3485 > iasonas.lamprianou at manchester.ac.uk > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- 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