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,
David,
I've run old version of R (2 years ago) from a CD and it worked well for me.
I guess you could run R from a USB drive.
On 11/16/05, David Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
A short time ago, I found
http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuff/portable_apps_suite/, which
On 17 November 2005 at 14:16, David Mitchell wrote:
| 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
Thanks guys,
Dirk: I generally resort to using my laptop for R analysis, but it
usually involves dragging loads of data multiple times between a
customer system and my laptop. Moving large amounts of data in this
fashion can be a problem, particularly when there's sensitivity issues
about the
I use SLAX on my USB stick (1GB) and I carry R, a host of contributed
R packages, all the core BioC packages, rkward as the R frontend,
Octave, and many many more. SLAX is in my experience much smaller,
lighter, faster, and more complete than any of the other Linux Live
CDs out there (my
On 17 November 2005 at 15:11, David Mitchell wrote:
| I didn't realise 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.
Yup. I've installed it onto Windows SMB
See the rw-FAQ Q2.6 for a more precise answer than has yet appeared in
this thread. A while back (for 2.1.0) some aspects of R were optimized
for usage from a slow (and possibly read-only) drive.
This does presume that the sites you visit will allow you to run programs
from an external drive,
