Comments on: R-project Portable

By: David Dernoncourt

David Dernoncourt — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:19:42 +0000

Maybe I wasn’t clear enough in the original post: all I did was ripping the whole R folder into a zip after a normal installation. R is natively “portable”, the only problem is that it only comes into an installer, which you can’t run on some restricted environments.

By: ks

ks — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:56:40 +0000

Thanks David.

Would you consider writing up how you put this together?

By: David Dernoncourt

David Dernoncourt — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:57:07 +0000

I haven't done this R+Notepad++ integration for a while. Last time I tried the plugin wasn't compatible with the latest Notepad++ version, so I gave up since R syntax is now supported in Notepad++, which is good enough for my less than occasional use of R. I just gave a new and brief try at NppToR, but with the non-existent (or hidden?) documentation all I managed to do was to destroy my Notepad++ Portable configuration file (oops :/). It seems that this tool is globally unhappy with the portable version of Notepad++. I remember using it, but I think it was on an unrestricted PC in another department, with Notepad++ non-portable. Edit: it did screw my Notepad++ configuration file, but it does work indeed. What I configured in npptor.ini was:

[executables]
R="[path to root folder of the R installation]"
Rcmdparms=[leave empty, or add whatever parameters you need]
Npp="[path to Notepad++Portable.exe, including the executable name]"
NppConfig="[path to Notepad++ Portable config directory, which shoud end like: \Data\settings]"

Then just launch NppToR.exe and you're good to go. (press F8 in Notepad++ to send the syntax to R)

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:24:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing your contribution. Before picking it, I would like to know whether you know how to put together a portable Notepad++, with R syntax, and the portable version of R, so that you can lauch scripts form the portable Notepad++ directly to the Rgui, without having to move from window to window manually. Thanks once again!