Fine. Attached. It's "waved". All it has is *.Rd files. Apparently the functions are collected in "functionINIT.R". But "00Index" and "DESCRIPTION" are not helpful.
- j -----Original Message----- From: b.rowling...@googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowling...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 10:18 AM To: Galkowski, Jan Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Standards for delivery of GPL software in CRAN packages 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
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