The worlds smallest R environment? Running R on a $15 computer

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R4Pi supplies prebuilt R binaries and a CRAN‑like repo (about 250–300 packages) so Raspberry Pi users avoid lengthy source builds; the site is pkgs.r4pi.org. Demonstrations show a $15 Zero 2 W ($15) and Pi 4 running R over SSH from an iPad (Blink), editing and knitting R Markdown in VS Code with the R extension, rendering ggplot2 plots, and serving Shiny via runApp(host='0.0.0.0') for network access. The claim—doing meaningful R work on $15 hardware—is shown working end‑to‑end.

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1. 0:00R4Pi project intro
2. 0:50What is Raspberry Pi
3. 3:59R4Pi project overview
4. 5:51Live R demo on Pi
5. 8:21R with VS Code
6. 9:25Plots with ggplot2
7. 10:06Shiny app running
8. 11:33Deploy Shiny server
9. 13:43Edge computing on Pi
10. 15:28Why Pi for R users

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