On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Galkowski, Jan <jgalk...@akamai.com> 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? >
The 'package source' link on CRAN should point you to a tar.gz file that contains the source code. For example, for splancs off the heanet mirror it is: http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/splancs_2.01-27.tar.gz .tar.gz files from those links should have full R, C and Fortran source code. I think we need counter-examples... Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
