On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 06:45 +1000, Bob Green wrote: >> I have been trying for a year to get approval to install R on a work >> computer and am not optimistic of a positive reply in the near future. I >> was considering whether an option might be to run R from a CD/USB stick. I >> looked through the installation manual but could see no mention of this >> option. >> >> If it is possible to run R from a CD or a USB stick without installation to >> a computer, I would appreciate direction to information or advice on how >> this might be done, >> >> Any assistance is appreciated, >> >> regards >> >> Bob Green > > Your e-mail headers suggest that you are on Windows, thus you might want > to review this post by Prof. Ripley in a thread from 2004 addressing > this issue: > > http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/41937.html
There is an updated version of that in the rw-FAQ, Q2.6. I run R from a USB drive quite often, both for demos in talks (on other people's Windows systems) and to test R on different Windows versions (e.g. 98) with minimal effort. > Alternatively, if you are comfortable running Linux, Dirk Eddelbuettel > has kindly provided Quantian: > > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html > > which is a Debian Linux based distribution that can run as a Live CD and > can be booted from the CD without having to actually install it. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
