Message-ID: <C6F0B15F-FE49-47AF-89A1-F404E38EF994@r-project.org>
Date: 2010-12-18T16:23:33Z
From: Simon Urbanek
Subject: R on iphone with issh
In-Reply-To: <B57B3D04-A90B-406B-8FF7-C259085C1DCB@uiuc.edu>
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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