On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Tim Cutts wrote: > On 9 Nov 2004, at 12:27 pm, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Lars Strand wrote: > > > >> Will R run under Windows Pocket PC? > > > > We don't know! > > > > There are no binary versions of R for that platform, but perhaps you > > could > > find a suitable compiler and manage to build the sources. > > > > Outside pure mathematics it is usually very hard to establish that > > something cannot be done (and it can be very hard in pure mathematics, > > too). > > Do PocketPCs generally have enough memory to run something as big as R?
Yes -- have you not seen the size of SD cards these days? An R for Windows install is under 50Mb and needs about 12Mb RAM to run. > A standard R install requires a lot of storage space, by PDA > standards... > > Technically, I don't suppose there's much to stop R running on some > PDAs, especially those based on Linux like the Sharp Zaurus, other than > storage and memory requirements. If there's a Qt graphical interface > available for R, you could even get graphics working on the Zaurus, > potentially. That was not the question. > The Windows API on Pocket PC is quite a reduced subset > compared to full Windows, so you might have problems with that. But that was. However, as I said, you would have to find a suitable compiler or cross-compiler, that supports enough features (and I suspect IEEE arithmetic would be a problem, especially as it is for VC++ on full Windows). Perhaps you would like to write such a compiler, as technically there's not much to stop you? > PalmOS would probably be right out. :-) I think you are belittling the work done to get R running on as wide a range of platforms as it does. -- 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
