Recently Michael Droettboom at Mozilla was asking around about doing for R what they've done for Python here https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide with the Iodide project
S On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:47 AM Gabriel Becker <gabembec...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I recall, the major blocker is that R links against a number of other > things (notably BLAS, pcre, etc) so while technically possible (?) I > suppose, the universe of things you'd have to compile over and then get > working is much larger than just the R internals. > > I think most people who consider this (including me years ago, as well as > the poster of Gabor's message to rdevel) hit that point and then go try to > find a less herculean task to pursue. > > ~G > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 12:57 AM Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > This was some time ago: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-May/066724.html > > > > So probably not hopeless, but I would think it is a lot of work. > > > > Gabor > > > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:17 AM Todd Wilder <wild...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Has anyone attempted to compile R (probably without any OS bindings) to > > > WebAssembly / Emscripten? If so, how far did you get? (would be crazy > > > awesome if you could get all the way to a ggplot bitmap output). If > not, > > is > > > this a waste of time or is there some daylight to doing this? > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
