My experiences parallel Dirk's - I also work for several financial
institutions and large corporates, and probably 80% of them allow me
to plug in a USB key and move files around.
Yep, I find it strange too...
Dave M.
On 11/18/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17 November 2005
Hello list,
A short time ago, I found
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/portable_apps_suite/, which
contains basically a complete set of office tools that can be run
*entirely* from a USB key. The concept is:
- find a Windows PC
- put in your USB key
- run OpenOffice, Firefox, Gaim, Nvu,
that the Windows version of R was relocatable that
easily - I just assumed the install did something more complex than
that. I'll try copying the R files to a USB key later today.
Thanks again
Dave M.
On 11/17/05, Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17 November 2005 at 14:16, David Mitchell wrote
Hello list,
I'm regularly in the position where I have to do a lot of data
manipulation, in order to get the data I have into a format R is happy
with. This manipulation would generally be in one of two forms:
- getting data from e.g. text log files into a tabular format
- extracting sensible
Hopefully my experience with R may add something to this discussion.
I majored in computer science in 1983, with minors in mathematics and
statistics. As this was in the days when computers were largely big
centralised boxes with remote terminals, I didn't get to use computers
for stats while I
