[Rd] Error in documentation for ?legend

2017-03-24 Thread POLITZER-AHLES, Stephen [CBS]
To whom it may concern: The help page for ?legend refers to a `title.cex` parameter, which suggests that the function has such a parameter. As far as I can tell, though, it doesn't; here's an example: > plot(1,1) > legend("topright",pch=1, legend="something", title="my legend", title.cex=2) E

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Michael Sumner
Have the lawyers look at Microsoft R, it seems the license is not very catching ultimately. Perhaps you could use a similar ruse, or even align to that project instead. Cheers, Mike On Sat, Mar 25, 2017, 00:54 Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > Dear All, > > I've been following this mailing list for

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Joris Meys
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 24 March 2017 at 17:04, Joris Meys wrote: > | attached. So including the closed source libraries as Mario wanted to do, > | is not accepted on CRAN. > > He never said he wanted to upload to CRAN. > > He asked whether he can use the

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 March 2017 at 17:04, Joris Meys wrote: | attached. So including the closed source libraries as Mario wanted to do, | is not accepted on CRAN. He never said he wanted to upload to CRAN. He asked whether he can use the open source work in his closed source product. Dirk -- http://dirk.edd

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Joris Meys
The key difference being that while not under the GPL, highcharter is still open source. There isn't a single compiled library in the entire package. WinBUGS otoh is closed source (although there is an open source version of it, OpenBUGS). As far as I understood, CRAN doesn't accept packages contai

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Ganz, Carl
There are also packages like highcharter, which package proprietary software without a license, but it is incumbent on the user to respect the license of the underlying library. -Original Message- From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Joris Meys Sent: Friday,

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Joris Meys
My humble 2 nonlegal cents: There are multiple packages that make the link between R and proprietary software. One example is R2WinBUGS which connects to WinBUGS, but there are a lot more of these. All of these use essentially the same idea: - create the package under a standard GPL license - use

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Marc Schwartz
See inline... > On Mar 24, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > > Dear All, > > I've been following this mailing list for over three years now, but > its just now that I have realized that R is licensed under GPL! :-) > > I'm not a lawyer and I don't want lawyer advice, but I'd like

Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Robert McGehee
I have no direct experience in this regard, but this FAQ seems to answer your question. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL I read this to mean that the answer may be different depending on whether your code links against R libraries or simply uses R as an interprete

[Rd] non-infectious license for R package?

2017-03-24 Thread Mario Emmenlauer
Dear All, I've been following this mailing list for over three years now, but its just now that I have realized that R is licensed under GPL! :-) I'm not a lawyer and I don't want lawyer advice, but I'd like to get your feedback on a license question. My goal is to develop commercial software fo

Re: [Rd] A question on stats::as.hclust.dendrogram

2017-03-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> Ma,Man Chun John > on Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:29:25 + writes: > Hi all, > This is the first time I'm writing to R-devel, and this time I'm just asking for the purpose for a certain line of code in stats::as.hclust.dendrogram, which comes up as I'm trying to fix dendextend.