portable R editor

Unfortunately, the suggested way with JauntePE does not work completely.

Maybe I have found a better alternative now:
There is a little free application by Sysinternals (now owned by MS) which
can create junction points, i.e. a system link to a directory under Windows.
It is available here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx

In my setup, I have under the root directory of the USB stick one dir called
"Programs" and one called "Application Data". I have copied the Tinn-R
folder to Programs and the ini files from the user profile into Application
Data. In Programs\Tinn-R I have created a batch file "startTinn-R.bat" with
this content:
REM START
junction %APPDATA%\Tinn-R %CD%"\..\..\..\Application Data\Tinn-R"
@start .\bin\Tinn-R
REM END
and copied the junction.exe into this dir as well.

When I double click this bat file, a link to the ini files on the USB stick
is created in the user's application data directory in the local harddrive
of the PC used. But note that this does not work if there exists a Tinn-R
directory already in the user's application data dir in local harddrive.

All the best,
  Werner

JauntePE is really easy to use. It does not take any particular skill.
Just launch the main application, click on the Lauch JPE Quickie Button
and it will guide you through the process. I left everything with the
default settings. In brief, one starts the Tinn-R installer once from
within JPE probably to check which folders, files, and registry entries
are generated. Then, again from within JPE, one starts the now on the
portable media installed Tinn-R application and finally the entire
application can be packaged up which probably generates the starter and
virtualization files within the Tinn-R folder.

I realized that startup of Tinn-R is now slower and I haven't worked with
that installation seriously yet but everything seems all right so far. 

Regards,
  Werner

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