On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:26 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > 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.
Prof. Ripley, thanks for the pointer. I should review the Windows FAQ more often, despite essentially not using it any longer. I think that there is a typo in the second sentence in that FAQ: ...so you can burn an image on the R installation on your hard disc... looks like it perhaps should read: ...so you can burn an image _of_ the R installation on your hard disc... Best regards, Marc ______________________________________________ [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
