Hi, I have adviced my students to install R and an editor on a USB drive for working in the computer class. With R everything works fine following these instructions: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~mrizzo/Rmisc/usbR.htm.
But several editors (e.g., Tinn-R and WinEdt) require administrator rights. I have found out that Emacs (Vincent Goulet's Emacs for Windows Modified http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/windows) can be installed without administrator rights. There is, however, one problem. I have edited the site-start.el file and adjusted the path variable: (setq inferior-R-program-name "G:/r-2.12.0/bin/i386/rterm.exe") since R is installed on the G drive. Everything works if R is on G, but when changing the computer, R is usually on another drive and Emacs cannot find it. Is it possible to handle this case? XEmacs for Windows requires that the init.el file is in the .xemacs subdirectory of the "home" directory that is on the hard drive. Is it possible to have the init.el file on the USB drive? Thank you! Hannu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
