Erm... Not so difficult, the iPhone toolchain is using gcc and it wouldn't be hard to make an ARM gfortran... I think Simon did on a lark when the iPhone came out.
The real problem is actually getting it onto the App Store since R is not allowed given current rules (no programming languages). Interestingly, if you were to use R to build an application that was NOT a programming language, that would be fine. (there are Smalltalk and Mono-based Apps in the store). On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:45 PM, David Winsemius <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:06 PM, Matthew Cohen wrote: > >> I think it might be worthwhile to think about getting R to work on the >> iPad, especially if it can access iWork/Numbers spreadsheets... I realize >> someone brought up trying this on the iPhone a couple of years back, and no >> one was able to figure out what the point would be. But R on the iPad seems >> like it would be genuinely useful... >> >> I'm not sure that I have much to contribute in terms of making this >> happen, but I'm wondering if anyone who is familiar with the iPhone SDK >> (especially anyone who has played around with 3.2) knows how feasible it >> would be... > > Show us an open-source C and Fortran compiler for the iPad. > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > Heritage Laboratories > West Hartford, CT > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- Byron Ellis ([email protected]) "Oook" -- The Librarian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
