Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-13 Thread Deepayan Sarkar
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 5:49 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 13/01/2017 3:21 PM, Charles Geyer wrote: >> >> I would like the unlicense (http://unlicense.org/) added to R >> licenses. Does anyone else think that worthwhile? >> > > That's a question for you to answer, not to ask. Who besides you th

Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 13 January 2017 at 17:43, frede...@ofb.net wrote: | I don't see why Charles' question should be taken as anything other | than an honest request for information. | | As for me, I've never heard of this license, but if CRAN doesn't have | an option to license software in the public domain, then

Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-13 Thread frederik
I don't see why Charles' question should be taken as anything other than an honest request for information. As for me, I've never heard of this license, but if CRAN doesn't have an option to license software in the public domain, then I would support the inclusion of some such option. FWIW, searc

Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/01/2017 3:21 PM, Charles Geyer wrote: I would like the unlicense (http://unlicense.org/) added to R licenses. Does anyone else think that worthwhile? That's a question for you to answer, not to ask. Who besides you thinks that it's a good license for open source software? If it is r

Re: [Rd] calling native routines in another package (Sec 5.4.2 of Writing R Extensions)

2017-01-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 13 January 2017 at 13:25, Charles Geyer wrote: | I just (apparently) figured out how to do the stuff described in | Section 5.4.2 of | Writing R Extensions. I put my test toy packages on github | for anyone to copy. If anyone | cares to read the README a

Re: [Rd] unlicense

2017-01-13 Thread Avraham Adler
A number of years ago I asked here for the ISC to be added and was told you have to ask CRAN, not Rd. Good luck, Avi On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:22 PM Charles Geyer wrote: > I would like the unlicense (http://unlicense.org/) added to R > > licenses. Does anyone else think that worthwhile? > > >

[Rd] unlicense

2017-01-13 Thread Charles Geyer
I would like the unlicense (http://unlicense.org/) added to R licenses. Does anyone else think that worthwhile? -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu _

[Rd] calling native routines in another package (Sec 5.4.2 of Writing R Extensions)

2017-01-13 Thread Charles Geyer
I just (apparently) figured out how to do the stuff described in Section 5.4.2 of Writing R Extensions. I put my test toy packages on github for anyone to copy. If anyone cares to read the README and the bits of code it links to and tell me anywhere I am wro