R Twitterer ech0chrome reports that (s)he has successfully installed R on an iPhone. I haven't tried it myself, since it requires jailbreaking the iPhone, but full instructions have been posted to the R Wiki. It seems that once you have Debian installed on the iPhone, it's simply a matter of installing the required Debian packages. Seems like a neat hack, but I'm not sure how productive I'd be typing R code on that small keyboard, even with the complete 5-row keyboard available on jailbroken iPhones. Now, if you could run R on the iPad (early reports of it being hacked are coming in already), that might be another story.
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I don't think the post means you have to install Debian, it just means you can use the Debian package management system to install R as a regular iPhone app.
Posted by: Ken Williams | April 05, 2010 at 11:08
is there a version of R on android? that should even be easier to install because there is no need to jailbreak
Posted by: fxj | April 05, 2010 at 11:28
I'm still waiting for R on Android (Linux).
Portable statistics on my G1? Yes please!
Posted by: Mikhail Popov | April 05, 2010 at 11:30
If we can get R and Latex on the iPad, consider me already in line.
Posted by: Sherri | April 05, 2010 at 12:07
I imagine that even if you can't get R running on the iPad without jail breaking it, you could run a pretty cool front end. But if running R on ipad is as simple as jailbreaking it and running Linux, that might be pretty cool. I doubt it will handle medium/medium-large datasets very well. I opened a csv with about 10,000 elements and it definitely chugged while navigating the spreadsheet, to say nothing of running operations over loops! :)
Posted by: Adam Hyland | April 05, 2010 at 12:20
Yes, R for android, please!!!
Posted by: Michal Blazejczyk | April 05, 2010 at 20:18
R on Android
when does it come out?
I bought an android device just for this but even the analytic-droid which is supposed to come with android was missing on sonyericsson x10 mini pro android phone and i cant find a way to dowload and install it since it is not in the official android market!!
Posted by: jem | July 17, 2010 at 05:53
I don't know how to run Debian package management system. I want to install R. Any help?
Posted by: Get iPhone 4 Free | July 28, 2010 at 08:14
I doubt it will handle medium/medium-large datasets very well. I opened a csv with about 10,000 elements and it definitely chugged while navigating the spreadsheet.
Posted by: ffxiv gil | August 11, 2010 at 23:31
Not sure but I don't want to jailbreak my iPhone. I still want to keep it in its default state.
Posted by: Pat | August 25, 2010 at 06:32