Message-ID: <20060101232921.GH88067@ms.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 2006-01-01T23:29:21Z
From: Andrew Robinson
Subject: R on Zaurus (was: Wish list)
In-Reply-To: <43B828BA.7010905@cesmail.net>
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:08:42AM -0800, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> Hasn't someone ported R to the Sharp Zaurus,
Yes, Simon Pickering did this. I ran his version of R on a Zaurus two
years ago. His site implies that development is still underway.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/enpsgp/Zaurus/index.html
> I'm not sure how well a number crunching application like R would
> run on the Zaurus processor, though -- IIRC the floating point is
> emulated in software.
It was slow :). Also I never got it to work with X, but in fairness I
didn't really try hard. Simon's site implies that improvements are
being implemented.
Cheers
Andrew
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