Hi. As a follow-up on [1], I'd like to raise the question of whether it's practically possible to compile R to the Google Android mobile platform?
The best way would probably be to use the Native Developer Kit [2], NDK, and in that way get a library. This could then be interfaced to by a Java-program. I know that several questions have been raised against the idea, e.g. with the input methods and all that, but I wouldn't be that hard to make an alternative input method or even a new language that could be compiled to R. The reason I'm raising this question again, is that I would really want a (basic) statistical package on my mobile phone, and I think it would be kind of stupid to start writing one from scratch when R is already out there. Unfortunately I don't know that much about build systems and are not capable of assesing whether it indeed would be possible to port R to Android through NDK. I know a bit of both R, Java, and C and would be able to help trying some different approaches, if anybody wants to help me. The alternative is to start writing a new mobile statistical package from the beginning. And although it should only maybe support 5% of the functionality of R, it would take a lot of time to do that. And I'd love to avoid that when good people has already done an amazing job :-). Cheers, Mikkel Meyer Andersen. [1]: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2009-February/187425.html [2]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/1.5_r1/index.html ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
