Smallest R executable
Littler looks interesting; any plans for creating a windows binary? Regards S?ren ________________________________ Fra: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org p? vegne af Iago Mosqueira Sendt: ti 21-11-2006 23:24 Til: Jeffrey Horner Cc: r-devel at r-project.org; Dirk Eddelbuettel Emne: Re: [Rd] Smallest R executable El mar, 21-11-2006 a las 11:05 -0600, Jeffrey Horner escribi?:
Iago Mosqueira wrote: --- Hello, I am trying to find out how can I generate the smallest R executable. R is to be run in a grid application, in batch mode, so I need a small exceutable, possibly getting rid of any interactive component. Should I look at the embedded version? Any other pointers? ---- (email copy and pasted because of charset problems?) Then look no further than littler (pronounced little r)! http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/LittleR Since we switched from using upper-case R to lower-case r, the space savings have been incredible! ;) Seriously, though, you might find it a good fit for batch programming, as it supports she-bang style programming. It is an executable linked to libR.so, and there's no shell script front-end. But are you more concerned about saving disk space, or R's in-memory footprint? Jeff
Thanks for that. I'll look at it. We need a smaller executable as it has to be sent around from the main machine of the grid to be executed on various nodes. Some nodes are quite far away, with less than gigabit network speeds, so saving in the size of the R executable sent would be advantageous. Regards, Iago ______________________________________________ R-devel at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel