Hi,
A few of the developers on our Quant team are using R for data calculation and
to generate a resulting CSV file. They have R installed on their workstations.
We are interested in having this deployed to user workstations where the users
will not have R installed on their workstations. Is there a way to create an
executable that the users can just run without R installed on their workstation?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Ismail Ma
Head of IT Applications
MEAG New York Corporation
Telephone: (212) 583-4850
Fax: (646) 521-7950
E-Mail: ima@meag-ny.com<mailto:ima@meag-ny.com>
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Ma Ismail - NewYork-MEAG-NY <ima at meag-ny.com> wrote:> Hi, > > A few of the developers on our Quant team are using R for data calculation and to generate a resulting CSV file. ?They have R installed on their workstations. ?We are interested in having this deployed to user workstations where the users will not have R installed on their workstations. ?Is there a way to create an executable that the users can just run without R installed on their workstation?No, not for any meaningful value of the word 'installed'. If you want to run R, you need the R interpreter and all the functions and stuff it carries around with it.Maybe you could bundle this all up into one monster executable, but why bother? R install is easy and portable (stick it anywhere, it runs). Even probably a network share. Oh, you didn't say what OS you were using. Did you read the posting guide? Also, this has been asked before. Did you search the mailing lists? I've noticed a lot of financial corporates getting into R and getting free help from R-help. From now on, I'm charging $50 per email to answer questions from anyone advertising as a 'quant'. Who do I invoice? Barry
Ma Ismail - NewYork-MEAG-NY <ima <at> meag-ny.com> writes:> > Hi, > > A few of the developers on our Quant team are using R for datacalculation andto generate a resulting CSV file. They have R installed on their workstations. We are interested in having this deployed to user workstations where the users will not have R installed on their workstations. Is there a way to create an executable that the users can just run without R installed on their workstation?> > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Ismail Ma > Head of IT Applications > MEAG New York Corporation > Telephone: (212) 583-4850 > Fax: (646) 521-7950 > E-Mail: ima <at> meag-ny.com<mailto:ima <at> meag-ny.com> > > > >Maybe I've misunderstood You, but You can manage a single R installation on a central server, and let clients hook up to it from Emacs+ESS or Eclipse+StatET. I've used both solutions, and they work like a charm... The emacs solution uses SSH and Eclipse a Java server thingy. Plz note that I'm from the Linux side of things. So my server is a Debian, and my clients are all Ubuntu. I have no clue how (or even if) these setups work on windows.