[R] Installing R and an editor on a USB drive

[B.-Markus Schuller]

Hey,

I don't know whether this helps, but an editor for Windows with code 
highlighting for any programming language (including R) that can be 
installed on a pen drive (USB stick) is Notepad++ 
(http://notepad-plus-plus.org/) and with the NppToR application 
(http://npptor.sourceforge.net/) that runs in the background, scripts 
and commands can be sent to R with a configurable keystroke just like 
with the R editor. I don't really know, though, if NppToR also can be 
run from the pen drive.

I personally like Notepad++ more than TinnR, mostly because it is 
smaller. It does not, however, provide such a rich development 
environment like TinnR.

Give it a try and see whether it fits your requirements.
Cheers,
Markus

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On 10.11.2010 11:47, Hannu Kahra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have adviced my students to install R and an editor on a USB drive for
> working in the computer class. With R everything works fine following these
> instructions: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~mrizzo/Rmisc/usbR.htm.
>
> But several editors (e.g., Tinn-R and WinEdt) require administrator rights.
> I have found out that Emacs (Vincent Goulet's Emacs for Windows Modified
> http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/windows) can be installed
> without administrator rights. There is, however, one problem. I have edited
> the site-start.el file and adjusted the path variable:
>
> (setq inferior-R-program-name "G:/r-2.12.0/bin/i386/rterm.exe")
>
> since R is installed on the G drive. Everything works if R is on G, but when
> changing the computer, R is usually on another drive and Emacs cannot find
> it. Is it possible to handle this case?
>
> XEmacs for Windows requires that the init.el file is in the .xemacs
> subdirectory of the "home" directory that is on the hard drive. Is it
> possible to have the init.el file on the USB drive?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Hannu
>
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