Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

On 06.11.2014 23:41, Gábor Csárdi wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2. Thanks! How does one know what is the latest official release? Is parsing th

Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote: [...] >> quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release > > > The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2. Thanks! How does one know what is the latest official release? Is parsing the R homepage the best way to determine it

Re: [Rd] r-release, r-oldrel

On 05.11.2014 02:44, Gábor Csárdi wrote: Hi All, quick question. How does one know which R versions r-release The latest official release, i.e. currently R-3.1.2. and r-oldrel If R-x.y.z is recent, then r-oldrel corresponds to the latest "y-1" version, i.e. currently R-3.0.3. Best, Uw

Re: [Rd] Pkg creation: Sweave: multiple files vignette: Error in R CMD check

My guess is that your child Rnw file was not copied to inst/doc during R CMD build or check. You may read the section 1.4 of the R-exts manual: http://cran.rstudio.com/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Writing-package-vignettes > When R CMD build builds the vignettes, it copies these and the vign

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

Thank you all for your advise, comments and suggestions. To keep it simple and play it fair and save, I choose to take the following actions: Within DESCRIPTION - the License now reads: License: GPL (>= 2) - the Authors are specified as Authors@R: as.person(c( "Peter Meissner [aut, cr

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

On 06/11/2014 10:05 AM, Peter Meissner wrote: But how might I do that? Writing GPL in DESCRIPTION and putting my name in every R-file? You should probably choose a version to be unambiguous, e.g. use "GPL-2 | GPL-3". There's a section on this in "Writing R Extensions". The files that you w

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Peter Meissner wrote: > But how might I do that? > > Writing GPL in DESCRIPTION and putting my name in every R-file? Maybe see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html It has some example header that you can put in each source file. Gabor > > > > Am 2014-11-06

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

> Yes, that's right. We often enter lines like > > Copyright (C) 1997--2014 The R Core Team > > into the sources, but I suspect that those don't legally imply a copyright > transfer, at least where I live. It's also not clear that R Core Team is a legal entity that can own copyright. Hadley --

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

On 06/11/2014 9:49 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > Theoretically you could ask the copyright holder of that piece of code > whether he/she/it allows you to use a different license. This brings up > another question: who is formally the copyright holder of the R source code > (and documentation)? The

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

But how might I do that? Writing GPL in DESCRIPTION and putting my name in every R-file? Am 2014-11-06 15:46, schrieb Hadley Wickham: And if yes how to do it best? What is the standard procedure here? Should I include base package authors as contributors in DESCRIPTION??? Am I allowed to us

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >>> And if yes how to do it best? What is the standard procedure here? >>> Should I include base package authors as contributors in DESCRIPTION??? >>> >>> Am I allowed to use MIT + file license with that or is it wrong to do so? >> >> No, you m

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

> Theoretically you could ask the copyright holder of that piece of code > whether he/she/it allows you to use a different license. This brings up > another question: who is formally the copyright holder of the R source code > (and documentation)? The R Foundation, the individual who contributed th

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

>> And if yes how to do it best? What is the standard procedure here? >> Should I include base package authors as contributors in DESCRIPTION??? >> >> Am I allowed to use MIT + file license with that or is it wrong to do so? > > No, you must use the GPL, since the code you copied is licensed under

Re: [Rd] Pkg creation: Sweave: multiple files vignette: Error in R CMD check

Hello R-developers! First I want to thank Duncan, Sean and Ben (off-list-communication) for your comments and suggestions! Unfortunetly the renaming of the child.Rnw file to e.g. child.sub and also the usage of an other file type like child.txt did not solve the Problem. I got an ERROR in the be

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

On Nov 6, 2014 3:36 AM, "Duncan Murdoch" wrote: > > On 06/11/2014, 5:57 AM, Peter Meissner wrote: > > Dear Listeners, > > > > ... also I read the CRAN policies and tried to solve those questions > > myself I feel very much in the need of good advise ... > > > > > > I am currently finishing a packa

Re: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code

On 06/11/2014, 5:57 AM, Peter Meissner wrote: > Dear Listeners, > > ... also I read the CRAN policies and tried to solve those questions > myself I feel very much in the need of good advise ... > > > I am currently finishing a package that -- to solve some nasty problems > with dirty data -- u

[Rd] Citation if copying R base code

Dear Listeners, ... also I read the CRAN policies and tried to solve those questions myself I feel very much in the need of good advise ... I am currently finishing a package that -- to solve some nasty problems with dirty data -- uses its own as.Date() equivalent methods (i.e. its own gene