Hi Alain, 2009/6/19 Alain Forget <afor...@scs.carleton.ca>
> > > Hell R-list, > > > > > > At the cost of sounding far-fetched and almost incredulous, I would > > > like to know if any R user is remotely considering the use of R on > > > Mobile devices, and Android in particular. > > > > First, rewrite R in Java. Good luck with that! > > > > http://code.google.com/android/kb/general.html#c > > > > > I really do not have an idea of the kind of definite incentives in > > > terms of using R on Android, but having an analytical engine on a > > > mobile phone would allow for micro statistics to be collected from the > > > log files reflecting number of calls dropped, average time spent > > > talking, a time series of the amount of time taken for battery > > > recharge, and a host of other information that could be collated and > > > analyzed. > > > > > > R widgets could be created for analyzing the data streams from other > > > apps running on the same device. > > > > > > Any thoughts/suggestions/information on this topic will be highly > appreciated. > > > > I think having the analytical engine on the phone is probably not a > > good idea for something that is pretty much connected all the time. > > Better to have a lightweight data collection engine reporting back to > > an analytical engine on a server somewhere. Then the analytical engine > > generates reports on a web page. > > > > The data collection engine could do trivial summaries, statistics and > > graphics in Java without needing R. If you wanted to do complex time > > series analysis then that would be a job for the off-phone server. > > > > Barry > > > I would absolutely love for R to work on mobile devices. I am looking for a > mobile that can basically be used just like a computer. I could then work > on > LaTeX documents, PowerPoint presentations, and of course R code when I'm in > transit, without the hassle of taking out (or even carrying!) my laptop. > Mobiles have been around so many years that I don't understand why we can't > use them like computers and install or use whatever software we want on > them. > > Anyway, if R could work Windows Mobile and/or Android, that'd be absolutely > fantastic, in my opinion. > > Alain Since R is opensource language, there are couple of things that need to be sorted before R can be ported to <insert-your-handheld>'s architecture; There needs to be decent C compiler/SDK available for it. Then theres a question of compatible license. Once thats sorted, I am sure porters will have very little trouble porting R to the particular architecture. I am looking forward to a pre-compiled R port for Android meself! heh :) -- Regards, Ishwor Gurung [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
