On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Iasonas Lamprianou wrote:
hi all,
is there a cd-rom image with a full R pre-installation which I can
give to my students so that if they want to run R on their computer,
they will be able to run it from the cd-rom without having to
install it on their computer. That way, they can have a 'protable' R
package installation in their bags, and they can use it on any
machine. Is this possible?
Well, no as there are an unlimited number of OSes in the world and R
does not run on them all.
But if you mean under Windows, this is covered by the rw-FAQ -- but
these days I would use a USB memory stick rather than a CD-ROM. See
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#Can-I-run-R-from-a-CD-or-USB-drive_003f
(I don't think this is easily possible on Mac OS X: various paths are
hardcoded in many places so it needs to be installed by
/Library/Frameworks.)
Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou
Assistant Professor (Educational Research and Evaluation)
Department of Education Sciences
European University-Cyprus
P.O. Box 22006
1516 Nicosia
Cyprus
Tel.: +357-22-713178
Fax: +357-22-590539
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Education
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Tel. 0044 161 275 3485
iasonas.lampria...@manchester.ac.uk
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