Is there a port of R for WinCE machines?
On 6 Feb 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
"Stuart Leask" <stuart.leask at nottingham.ac.uk> writes:
Has anyone ported R to the WinCE OS? Indeed, does anyone know of _any_ statistics software for this OS?
Looks like cross-compiling environments for this are in their infancy. Have a look at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wince-devel/messagesearch?query=gcc It seems like someone is pulling the strings together, but I wouldn't hold my breath. My impression is that it is like the Win32 crosscompilers 5 years ago. Major tinkering is involved. Notice that you need to specify the chip architecture for these devices. R runs on the mips and arm architectures under Linux (which implies that the gcc compiler target exists and works at least reasonably), but with some bad problems (bad as in "can't do postscript plots").
My understanding was that WinCE was no more (read `Pocket Windows 2002') and that all current implementations used the same chip (StrongArm as I recall). I think the big problem would be an IEEE-compliant run-time system. R won't even build under VC++ on win32 because of problems there, and we do use msvcrt.dll. If there is spare Windows programming expertise available, we need it for win32 ....
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