On 29.04.19 11:03, Raffaele Argiento wrote: > we are developing a R package and we would like to include as an > example published data that we have taken from a paper. Is this > allowed ? Where can I find the policy about distributing data through > the R Package
From the CRAN policies <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html>: Packages should be of the minimum necessary size. Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda files) and PDF documentation: CRAN will if necessary pass the latter through qpdf. As a general rule, neither data nor documentation should exceed 5MB (which covers several books). A CRAN package is not an appropriate way to distribute course notes, and authors will be asked to trim their documentation to a maximum of 5MB. Where a large amount of data is required (even after compression), consideration should be given to a separate data-only package which can be updated only rarely (since older versions of packages are archived in perpetuity). Besides these technical questions, one also has to consider legal questions: Under which license may one distribute the data? Greetings Ralf -- Ralf Stubner Senior Software Engineer / Trainer daqana GmbH Dortustraße 48 14467 Potsdam T: +49 331 23 61 93 11 F: +49 331 23 61 93 90 M: +49 162 20 91 196 Mail: ralf.stub...@daqana.com Sitz: Potsdam Register: AG Potsdam HRB 27966 Ust.-IdNr.: DE300072622 Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Stefan Knirsch, Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Kuno Kunze
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