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November 28, 2010 - 9:58am
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reepicheep
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R Project as a Portable App?

Subject says it all really.

Has anyone ported the R Project's R stats application into the Portable Apps framework. Normally my use of R is on Mac OS X but I have occasional need to process stats on a client's Windows machines but because of hot desking can't install a copy of R on a fixed machine. PortableApps would be the way to go.

I've looked through the archives but can't find any mention of R before. I see a Freemat port but although there is a little overlap between them my use of R packages means I can't switch.

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November 28, 2010 - 10:06am
solanus
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Please supply

Please supply:
- The Official Name of the App as it appears on its homepage
- The type of license
- A description for those of us who have never heard of it
- A link to the official site of the app (the homepage, not just a download link)
- Any information about dependencies, system requirements, etc.

I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.

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November 30, 2010 - 2:36am
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reepicheep
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Application Info

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.

The name of the application is R.

The R Project's home page is http://www.r-project.org

The licence is FSF's GPL.

Current Windows builds are available for 32- and 64-bit versions. I'm no Windows' epert but it appears to me that there are few, if any, show-stopper dependencies or system requirements. The "R for Windows FAQ" includes some details on running R from USB flash drives.

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December 4, 2010 - 1:32pm
taenia solium
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The missing mathematical package

Hello!

Maxima (computer algebra system) and Octave (number crunching) are being ported. A statistical package such as R is missing and would be a great addition to PortableApps. I may help by being a PortableApps beta tester for this application.

Best regards from Portugal!

PS - FreeMat is also an intetresting project (like Octave, another MATLAB clone - check FreeMat's homepage for an accurate description), that I recently discoverd because of PortableApps Smile

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Taenia Solium

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December 9, 2010 - 4:07pm
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Its really portable

R can be installed, omitting in its install procedure that write to the registry the file type. Copy to an USB an unistall from your hard disk. It will work portably.

Denis J Navas

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