Porting r-base / r-extended to Jolla should be relatively easy. I suspect that compiling the package with the Jolla SDK should be achievable with minimal effort, and after that is a matter of bundling desired third party libraries (ggplot2, etc...) and packaging everything up for distribution.
Now, as I do not own a Jolla phone, I am not in the best position to release a stable, quality package. Rather than blindly releasing garbage, I prefer to wait until I have a device that I can experiment and test with.
However, if you (or someone else) feel like getting dirty and trying yourself, I will be more than happy to give advices and share my past experience.
Any news on this? Did you get a Jolla since this discussion, or did someone else offer to try porting R to Sailfish? Still eagerly looking forward to trying a version on Sailfish.
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Kabouik
Fri, 2014/05/23 - 15:38
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I am very grateful that someone spent time in packaging R here! Any plans on porting that to Sailfish? I'd really like to have R working on my Jolla!
paolo_3_1415926
Sat, 2014/05/24 - 10:58
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Hi!
Porting r-base / r-extended to Jolla should be relatively easy. I suspect that compiling the package with the Jolla SDK should be achievable with minimal effort, and after that is a matter of bundling desired third party libraries (ggplot2, etc...) and packaging everything up for distribution.
Now, as I do not own a Jolla phone, I am not in the best position to release a stable, quality package. Rather than blindly releasing garbage, I prefer to wait until I have a device that I can experiment and test with.
However, if you (or someone else) feel like getting dirty and trying yourself, I will be more than happy to give advices and share my past experience.
Paolo
Kabouik
Sat, 2014/05/24 - 17:34
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Thank you for your answer! Unfortunately I have no skills or time to try myself now, so I hope you'll get a Jolla soon!
(Well of course, if you want to build a binary, I will be there to try it! But I cannot provide extensive feedback in case it doesn't work. :P)
Kabouik
Sat, 2016/06/04 - 03:31
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Any news on this? Did you get a Jolla since this discussion, or did someone else offer to try porting R to Sailfish? Still eagerly looking forward to trying a version on Sailfish.
mm0zct
Mon, 2013/12/02 - 03:28
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Thanks for porting R across to the N9, I missed it form my N900 :)
missing a dependence on libgfortran3 and libreadline5 which is easily solved with
>devel-su <root password, default rootme>
>apt-get install libgfortran3 libreadline5
paolo_3_1415926
Tue, 2013/12/03 - 00:01
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Thanks for the feedback! I will try to fix this by the end of the week.