Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-15 Thread Uwe Ligges
Tobias Verbeke wrote: > Hi Ben, > >> Tobias Verbeke businessdecision.com> writes: >> >>> The resulting package now allows for using an embedded OpenBUGS >>> on GNU/Linux without relying on WINE. Thanks to all for their helpful >>> comments. >> >> woo-hoo! this is great! Any chance that thi

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-14 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Hi Ben, > Tobias Verbeke businessdecision.com> writes: > >> The resulting package now allows for using an embedded OpenBUGS >> on GNU/Linux without relying on WINE. Thanks to all for their helpful >> comments. > > woo-hoo! this is great! Any chance that this will propagate > to the R2WinBU

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-14 Thread Ben Bolker
Tobias Verbeke businessdecision.com> writes: > The resulting package now allows for using an embedded OpenBUGS > on GNU/Linux without relying on WINE. Thanks to all for their helpful > comments. woo-hoo! this is great! Any chance that this will propagate to the R2WinBUGS package at some poi

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-14 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Tobias Verbeke wrote: > >> Actually, I think Hin-Tak is right about the absolute path. Even when >> the R code will call the executable that resides in that directory, R >> will call it from any directory and that (current) directory will be >> resolved (at least that is

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-08 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Tobias Verbeke wrote: > Actually, I think Hin-Tak is right about the absolute path. Even when > the R code will call the executable that resides in that directory, R > will call it from any directory and that (current) directory will be > resolved (at least that is what I observe experimentally

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-08 Thread Tobias Verbeke
Thank you very much for your input. In the meantime I was -- thanks to the pointer to the Rserve Makefile by Professor Ripley -- able to have a Makefile that built the package correctly: SFILE = ../inst/OpenBUGS/linbugs.c XFILE = ../inst/OpenBUGS/linbugs SOFILE = ../src/linbugs.so all: $(XFILE)

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-08 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> OpenBUGS is distributed under GPL2, so this seems not to apply. >> It is distributed as source and as binaries: the difficulty is that it >> is written in Object Pascal for which a compiler is not readily available. > > Argh, I just thought of

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-07 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > OpenBUGS is distributed under GPL2, so this seems not to apply. > It is distributed as source and as binaries: the difficulty is that it > is written in Object Pascal for which a compiler is not readily available. Argh, I just thought of a proper technical reason, and I

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
OpenBUGS is distributed under GPL2, so this seems not to apply. It is distributed as source and as binaries: the difficulty is that it is written in Object Pascal for which a compiler is not readily available. On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Mon, 6 Aug 2

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Andrew Clausen wrote: > Hi Hin-Tak, > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:10:36AM +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> GPL-licensed code dlopen()'ing proprietary-licensed binary-only DLL/so >> is allowed > > Do you have any evidence? (eg: something written on www.fsf.org?) > > As far as I know, the normal g

Re: [Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-06 Thread Andrew Clausen
Hi Hin-Tak, On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 01:10:36AM +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > GPL-licensed code dlopen()'ing proprietary-licensed binary-only DLL/so > is allowed Do you have any evidence? (eg: something written on www.fsf.org?) As far as I know, the normal grounds for allowing GPL code to link w

[Rd] Sligthly OT Re: Makefile for embedding OpenBUGS in R package

2007-08-06 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Tobias Verbeke wrote: >>> I presume. >> Actually, these files appear to differ. The file I referred to >> was the file ./Manuals/CBugs.html contained in the current OpenBUGS >> release: >> >> http://mathstat.helsinki.fi/openbugs/OpenBUGS.zip > > I am