R on iphone with issh
On Dec 17, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Roger Koenker wrote:
There seems to have been quite a lot of gnashing of teeth about running R on the iphone, but having recently installed issh on my iphone4 and found it capable of running R remotely -- complete with forwarded x11 graphics, I've been wondering what all the fuss was about.
Not that - you could run remote sessions from the iPhone for years (there are many ways, ssh+X11, VNC, remote R GUIs, ...) we know that ;). The discussion you refer to (I guess) was about native R which is possible (we have arm support in the framework) but not distributable via Apple Store. I would still argue that it would be nice to have remote version of the R.app for the iPad but given all the other available options it's not a high priority. Cheers, Simon
Granted one would have to be rather desperate to do anything very elaborate on the iphone, but it would seem much more likely to be useful when invoking an R session on a remote machine that you already were familiar with than running de novo on the phone itself. Setup was quite easy once you are able to login to a remote machine, you need only to enable x forwarding, and the dwm window manager and then invoking a plot command sends graphics that are viewable by tapping the X symbol in the upper right corner of the screen (twice). url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801
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