Jony, I'm currently writing up the paper for something with a similar result but very different implementation. The RBrowserPlugin package/browser plugin (joint with my advisor Duncan Temple Lang) embeds R within the web browser as an NPAPI plugin.
This approach allows full bi-directional communication between R and the javascript engine (including direct function calling and references to native objects in both directions) using a user's existing local R installation (including packages). Devel source at https://github.com/gmbecker/RFirefox, release, (hopefully) officially cross-platform version to coincide with the paper going off for review. I had toyed with the idea of the emscripten approach, but I think putting R in the browser once is enough for me at the moment so I will happily keep an eye on your project instead of attacking that myself :). As for your actual question I can't really say, other than that I suspect you will not be able to dispense with base and methods, but that I would conjecture that stats is "optional". ~G On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Jony Hudson <jony.hud...@imperial.ac.uk>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to cross-compile R to javascript so that it can run in a > web-browser. Take as long as you need to stop laughing. So, as I was saying > - I want to try and get a build of R running in the browser. [If you're not > familiar with it already, you might enjoy looking at emscripten.org. It's > a remarkably capable tool for translating LLVM bitcode to javascript. Check > out some of the demos!] > > I'm trying to start out with the most minimal build of R possible. I can > turn off various options in the configure script, but I'm wondering about > the bundled R packages (base, stats etc). I'm guessing that the native code > portions of these packages are dynamically loaded at runtime, which will > probably need patching. To start off, I'd like to not build these packages > if possible. > > So, is there a way to configure which packages in the library get built or > is it just a case of editing the makefile? And is there a minimal set of > them that would still allow R to run (not be useful - that can come later - > just run)? > > Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide :-) > > > Jony > > -- > Centre for Cold Matter, The Blackett Laboratory, > Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW > T: +44 (0)207 5947741 > http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/jony.hudson > http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ccm/research/edm > http://www.monkeycruncher.org > http://j-star.org/ > -- > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Gabriel Becker Graduate Student Statistics Department University of California, Davis [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
