[R] Running R from a CD on Windows?

2007-12-27 Thread Charles Annis, P.E.
Greetings, R-ians: Yes it's easy to run R from a CD: I copied my windows installation folder to the CD, then copied my R working directory to the CD. To run from the CD, I copy the working directory from the CD to the desktop, and then create an R desktop icon that points to Rgui.exe on the CD,

Re: [R] Running R from a CD on Windows?

2007-12-27 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
There is a batch script, rgui.bat, in batchfiles, see home page at batchfiles.googlecode.com, that will search the registry and a few other places for R and start up R if it can find it. It does not search CD's automatically but that would be simple to add. On Dec 27, 2007 3:25 PM, Charles

Re: [R] Running R from a CD on Windows?

2007-12-27 Thread Uwe Ligges
Sounds like you want to write some VisualBasic script that sets up the link etc., started by the autorun.inf facility. In any case, many virus and/or behavior checkers will shout when you implement things like that ... - and I have disabled auto-anything for CD/USB devices not only form