Re: [Rd] alternate licensing for package data?

2015-04-22 Thread Avraham Adler
To get around this last problem, perhaps you can take advantage of CRAN's suggestion regarding large data files [1] where they say "[w]here 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 (si

Re: [Rd] alternate licensing for package data?

2015-04-22 Thread Ben Bolker
Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: > On 22 April 2015 at 11:34, Roger Bivand wrote: > | While I agree with Martyn with respect to code, documentation, and > | vignettes, the point Ben raises is relevant and not obvious. Data sets in > | say GLP-licensed packages are on occasion challenged by D

Re: [Rd] shlib problems with Intel compiler

2015-04-22 Thread Martyn Plummer
I was assuming that R was configured with --enable-R-shlib but if that's not the case then you don't need it. Martyn > On 22 Apr 2015, at 18:40, Andy Jacobson (NOAA Affiliate) > wrote: > > Hi Martyn, > > Thanks for your insight, that seems pretty direct. Unfortunately, I did not > compile

Re: [Rd] shlib problems with Intel compiler

2015-04-22 Thread Andy Jacobson (NOAA Affiliate)
Hi Martyn, Thanks for your insight, that seems pretty direct. Unfortunately, I did not compile this version of R (it's on a large supercomputer system and this version of R was installed by the admins). Using "R CMD config", I see the following relevant settings: DYLIB_LD = icc -std=gnu99 DY

Re: [Rd] shlib problems with Intel compiler

2015-04-22 Thread Martyn Plummer
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 11:46 -0600, Andy Jacobson (NOAA Affiliate) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm encountering trouble compiling caTools_1.17.1.tar.gz and > e1071_1.6-4.tar.gz on a Linux system using the Intel compiler suite. > 14 other packages I generally use installed without any trouble. I > notice both

Re: [Rd] alternate licensing for package data?

2015-04-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 22 April 2015 at 11:34, Roger Bivand wrote: | While I agree with Martyn with respect to code, documentation, and | vignettes, the point Ben raises is relevant and not obvious. Data sets in | say GLP-licensed packages are on occasion challenged by Debian packagers Not generally the packagers (w

Re: [Rd] Bug 15899 - Omitted 'extern' on 'R_running_as_main_program' after refactor can cause linker errors for applications embedding R

2015-04-22 Thread Martin Maechler
> Jack Howarth > on Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:52:52 -0400 writes: > Is there any plans for addressing the regression... > https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15899 > in the 3.2.1 release? In the fink project, I had to resort to creating a > fixincludes subd

Re: [Rd] alternate licensing for package data?

2015-04-22 Thread Brian G. Peterson
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 11:34 +, Roger Bivand wrote: > Martyn Plummer iarc.fr> writes: > > > > > I think this is covered well by the CRAN repository policy: > > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html > > > > The two key license requirements are that: > > 1) CRAN must have a pe

Re: [Rd] alternate licensing for package data?

2015-04-22 Thread Roger Bivand
Martyn Plummer iarc.fr> writes: > > I think this is covered well by the CRAN repository policy: > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html > > The two key license requirements are that: > 1) CRAN must have a perpetual license to distribute the package > 2) The package license shou

Re: [Rd] alternate licensing for package data?

2015-04-22 Thread Martyn Plummer
I think this is covered well by the CRAN repository policy: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html The two key license requirements are that: 1) CRAN must have a perpetual license to distribute the package 2) The package license should be listed here: https://svn.r-project.org/R/t