[R] Is there a port of R for WinCE machines?

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Feb 6 15:47:15 CET 2002


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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