Re: [Rd] Licensing concerns in porting S-Plus code to R libraries

2012-10-17 Thread Louis Bajuk-Yorgan
Hi Chris Thanks for asking about this. In general, 3rd parties aren't allowed to modify Insightful (now TIBCO) code and then re-release it under a different license, since we own the copyright to the code. However, we strive to be strong supporters of the R community, and to make contributions

Re: [Rd] What's your opinion about the Transparency Layer feature of Oracle R Enterprise?

2012-10-17 Thread Ben Bolker
Xiaobo Gu gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > The Transparency Layer feature of Oracle R Enterprise overcomes the > RAM limitation of R, and can take advantage of multiple core > processing of the database server by translating R expression into > SQL, what about building a open source version of th

[Rd] Rcmd_environ and R_LIBS_{USER,SITE}

2012-10-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Is there a fundamental reason why I cannot set either one of ## add local library path -- doesn't work either R_LIBS_USER="c:/opt/R-library" R_LIBS_SITE="c:/opt/R-library" in $R_HOME/etc/Rcmd_environ even though I can seemingly set other things here? It breaks "R CMD check" for me as I pr

[Rd] What's your opinion about the Transparency Layer feature of Oracle R Enterprise?

2012-10-17 Thread Xiaobo Gu
Hi, The Transparency Layer feature of Oracle R Enterprise overcomes the RAM limitation of R, and can take advantage of multiple core processing of the database server by translating R expression into SQL, what about building a open source version of the transparency layer for relational databases?