Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Goodrich
I don't have a strong opinion about partitioning the repository, but I don't think partitioning based on whether the license is commonly used for R packages is terribly helpful. AGPL and AGPL + GPL3 are not common licensing schemes for R packages currently, but from the perspective of a useR, there

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Christophe Dutang
Hi all, I think for the common licences, we should also add BSD licence... for example my pkg randtoolbox (which is currently with incompatible licences) will probably be in a near future with the BSD licence. Anyway I like the idea of two different repositories for GPL like licensed pkg

[Rd] About ParallelR and licensing of packages

2009-04-24 Thread Danese Cooper
Howdy all... Reading with interest the thread(s) about REvolution, package licensing and the requirements of the GPL. First of all, let me introduce myself .  I joined REvolution Computing in February, after working for nearly 4 years for Intel as an open source strategist and before that for 6 ye

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Goodrich
Kurt Hornik wrote: > AGPL, unfortunately, allows supplements, and hence cannot fully be > standardized. We've been thinking about extending the current scheme to > indicate a base license plus supplements, but this is still work in > progress. This would be helpful. I would just reemphasize that

Re: [Rd] Managing DLLs with the same names in an R session

2009-04-24 Thread Patrick Aboyoun
Thanks Brian. I'll stop trying to hack the code to work and opt for the dll rename option. Patrick Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Patrick Aboyoun wrote: I am having a problem using two DLLs with the same name, but obviously located in different directories, in an R session. T

Re: [Rd] Managing DLLs with the same names in an R session

2009-04-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Patrick Aboyoun wrote: I am having a problem using two DLLs with the same name, but obviously located in different directories, in an R session. The troublesome package is the (Bioconductor) Rgraphviz package. It relies on (3rd party software) graphviz and imports function

[Rd] Managing DLLs with the same names in an R session

2009-04-24 Thread Patrick Aboyoun
I am having a problem using two DLLs with the same name, but obviously located in different directories, in an R session. The troublesome package is the (Bioconductor) Rgraphviz package. It relies on (3rd party software) graphviz and imports functions from (Bioconductor) package graph. Unfortun

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Ian Fellows wrote: > >>Still, if they have code that is compiled and linked to R at running >>time, then that code must be under the GPL. Again, this is the FSF >>?interpretation and certainly not R-core's, not even mine. >>[...] > > Well, not quite. R.h RDefines.h

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Ian Fellows wrote: >> Still, if they have code that is compiled and linked to R at running >> time, then that code must be under the GPL. Again, this is the FSF >> ?interpretation and certainly not R-core's, not even mine. >> [...] > > Well, not quite. R.h RDefines.h and RInternals.h are LGPL, so

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Stavros Macrakis
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Ted Harding wrote: > ...However, if that commercial interpreter also had a 'compile' option, > and I compiled my progrtam using that, then equally I feel sure > that the compiled version would be subject to whatever restrictions > had been placed on distirbution fo

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Fellows
>Still, if they have code that is compiled and linked to R at running >time, then that code must be under the GPL. Again, this is the FSF >?interpretation and certainly not R-core's, not even mine. >[...] Well, not quite. R.h RDefines.h and RInternals.h are LGPL, so as long as the hooks go throug

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Ben Goodrich wrote: > Kurt Hornik wrote: >> AGPL, unfortunately, allows supplements, and hence cannot fully be >> standardized.  We've been thinking about extending the current scheme to >> indicate a base license plus supplements, but this is still work in >> pro

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:21:45PM -0700, Ian Fellows wrote: [...] > IMO, that's nuts, there is no such thing as "linking" to a library "in > an interpreted environment".  Linking is a well understood operation > in computer programming, a

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:21:45PM -0700, Ian Fellows wrote: > Assuming that the foundation does not want to deviate from the FSF > interpretation, there would still be value in clarifying its position > vis-?-vis how the license applies to R specifically. > > For example the FSF foundation claim

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 April 2009 at 10:18, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: | On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich wrote: | | > Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: | > > As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb | > currently | > > has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Kjetil Halvorsen writes: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich wrote: >> Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: >> > As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb >> currently >> > has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: >> > >> >

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: > > As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb > currently > > has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: > > > > BARD,BayesDA,CoCo,ConvCalendar,FAiR,PTA

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Ben Goodrich writes: > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich >> wrote: >>> Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and do

Re: [Rd] incorrect output and segfaults from sprintf with %*d (PR#13667)

2009-04-24 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: > > vQ> sprintf has a documented limit on strings included in the output > using the > vQ> format '%s'. It appears that there is a limit on the length of > strings included > vQ> with, e.g., the format '%d' beyond which surprising things happen > (o

Re: [Rd] memory.limit(): Typo in Windows NEWS and function returns a "disregarded" error

2009-04-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 24/04/2009 5:33 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: Thanks, we know from other messages and this has been files as a bug report minutes ago... Best wishes, Uwe Ligges Pfaff, Bernhard Dr. wrote: Dear list subscriber (R-Core), there is a minor typo in the Windows specific NEWS for R 2.9.0: http://cran

Re: [Rd] speedup for as.matrix.dist

2009-04-24 Thread Romain Francois
Hi, I found the init.c file I did not see before. > m <- expand.grid( x = 1:20, y = 1:20, z = 1:20 ) > d <- dist( m ) > system.time( out <- as.matrix( d ) ) user system elapsed 3.006 1.252 4.429 > old.as.matrix.dist <- function(x, ...) + { + size <- attr(x, "Size") + df <- matrix

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Apr 23, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote: I said: ...The GPL FAQs are the FSF's interpretation. The R Foundation is not obliged to have the same interpretation, and of course the FSF cannot enforce licenses given by the R Foundation On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Marc Sc

Re: [Rd] incorrect output and segfaults from sprintf with %*d (PR#13667)

2009-04-24 Thread maechler
> "MM" == Martin Maechler > on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:40:22 +0200 (CEST) writes: > "vQ" == Wacek Kusnierczyk > on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:49:54 +0200 writes: vQ> maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: >>> vQ> sprintf has a documented limit on strings included in the out

Re: [Rd] memory.limit(): Typo in Windows NEWS and function returns a "disregarded" error

2009-04-24 Thread Uwe Ligges
Thanks, we know from other messages and this has been files as a bug report minutes ago... Best wishes, Uwe Ligges Pfaff, Bernhard Dr. wrote: Dear list subscriber (R-Core), there is a minor typo in the Windows specific NEWS for R 2.9.0: http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/CHANGES

[Rd] memory.limit(): Typo in Windows NEWS and function returns a "disregarded" error

2009-04-24 Thread Pfaff, Bernhard Dr.
Dear list subscriber (R-Core), there is a minor typo in the Windows specific NEWS for R 2.9.0: http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/CHANGES.R-2.9.0 There is no function 'memory.limits() but memory.limit() (see below). Secondly, I am kind of irritated by the function's behaviour. It re

[Rd] memory.limit returns error (not present in 2.8.) (PR#13673)

2009-04-24 Thread francisco
Full_Name: Francisco J. Zagmutt Version: 2.9.0 OS: XP pro, SP2 Submission from: (NULL) (98.245.159.214) - Description: memory.limit(x) will yield an error even though the memory allocation limit is changed to x (when possible). The same call does not yield an error in R version 2.8.x - Example c