I often run R via a Ceedo virtualisation on a USB drive (http://www.ceedo.com/) with XP. It costs a few dollars to it this way, but is a very low stress installation and has worked flawlessly, albeit a little slower (barely noticeable). Very handy if you are often working on various machines without administrator rights (as I do in clinic) - just plug in your USB and go directly back to your project. It then removes any trace of you (so they say) when you log out. And you can use it for other software (within limits though) you might want to carry around.
Hope that helps. Scott ____________________________ Scott Williams MD Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne Australia -----Original Message----- From: John Kane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 21 August 2007 12:28 AM To: John Kane; Erin Hodgess; r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] R on a flash drive Oops meant to send this to the list. --- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Erin Hodgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear R People: > > > > Has anyone run R from a flash drive, please? > > > > If so, how did it work, please? > > Yes I run R, occasionally, on a USB with no problem > on > WindowsXP. It works well, albeit a bit more slowly > than from the hard drive which is as you would > expect. > > The last time I upgraded the USB (to 2.5.0 ?) I > simply > downloaded R and installed it on the USB drive > rather > than the C: drive and then installed all my usual > optional packages using the normal Rgui interface. > > I usually have R, Tinn-R and portable versions of > OpenOoffice.org, and Firefox installed on the USB. > > > Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! > Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. > Start today at > http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.