I think the Wolfram license is for non-profit, i.e. users and NGOs. Companies making a profit should buy a license. IMHO, the strategy is to increase Wolfram user base.
For R and RStudio, it would make sense to add Wolfram to become a comprehensive solution to do science. R is of course mostly statistical. R competes very well with Python in the areas R does well. But in anything not numerical, but symbolic, R lacks a lot. Instead, Python has SymPy and Sagemath. So, a scientist may switch from R to Python, due to the combined numerical and symbolic capabilities. Instead, if RStudio could use Wolfram, then a scientist would have better symbolic than Python (or the same, since Jupyter already interfaces Wolfram), RStudio which is better than Jupyter, better statistics than Python and better c++ integration than Python. At least me, I am in this conundrum. With integration to Wolfram, it would be a no-brainer to remain with R. On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 20:28 peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Even from a cursory glance, it is clear that this product is not Free > Software, not even Free as in Beer. It cannot be used by end users of open > source projects unless you apply for a special license from Wolfram, which > I strongly suspect would render the whole project in violation of the GPL > license that R has. > > It is possible that you could write an interface from R to WED. The > licensing questions around "derived works" are a bit murky, but as far as I > know it is OK for a GPL'ed software to _use_ a commercial software, > assuming that the user has the appropriate license. However, I fail to see > that such an interface would be a major selling point for R. > > -pd > > > On 5 Jul 2019, at 19:30 , Jordi Molins <anarco.socialdemocr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Wolfram Engine for Developers is now free (under some circumstances). Is > it > > possible to call Wolfram from R, especially from RStudio? > > > > Being able to do this would significantly increase the potential of R, I > > believe. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.