On Jun 27, 2011, at 7:24 AM, Galkowski, Jan wrote: > I wondered if there were standard practices in CRAN for delivery of R source > implementing functions in R packages. I has encountered a couple of packages > where the gzipped version of source contains very little, primarily the Help > files describing the functions in the package. In some cases I can find the > source as the value of the function name. > > Given that these packages are released as GPL, oughtn't the unoptimized > source be freely available, hopefully with comments? Am I missing something? > Is there a central place other than mirrors where such source is retained? > Sourceforge? > > - Jan
Can you name the packages in question? Within CRAN packages (specifically the .tar.gz package source archives), there will be several sub-directories which contain all sources files. These include: 'R' which contains all R source code 'src' which will contain any C, C++ or FORTRAN code and header files 'inst' which will contain other source code, such as Perl, etc. If you are looking at the .zip or .tgz files, these are pre-compiled binary, not source archives, to enable Windows and OSX users to install the packages without needing to have development tools (compilers, etc.) present on their systems. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
