Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: > Copyright is the right that the author of an original work holds > automatically (unless someone else can claim to own his work - e.g. his > employer etc.) under the Berne Convent

Re: [Rd] Darwinian software development and the library function

2010-02-13 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi. Here are some guidelines that I find useful: - Avoid changing the arguments of generic functions provided by the default R packages, especially the ones in base. Just, accept those arguments. If there are extra arguments you don't like, you can always add '...' to your method and they will

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Simon Urbanek a écrit : On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:14 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: Copyright is the right that the author of an original work holds automatically (unless someone else can claim to own his work - e.g. his employer etc.) under

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > In practice this issue seldom arises as the whole idea of open source is > collaborative development, i.e., it explicitly allows others to modify and > redistribute the code. There is often at least a semi-centralized entity > that represen

Re: [Rd] long integer in R?

2010-02-13 Thread blue sky
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:33 , blue sky wrote: > >> R-exts.pdf dosen't list many types that are supported in C++, for example, >> long. Are there storage.mode corresponds to those extra types? >> > > There are none - that's why they are not l

Re: [Rd] long integer in R?

2010-02-13 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 13, 2010, at 5:04 PM, blue sky wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Simon Urbanek > wrote: >> >> On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:33 , blue sky wrote: >> >>> R-exts.pdf dosen't list many types that are supported in C++, for example, >>> long. Are there storage.mode corresponds to those extr

Re: [Rd] Copyright versus Licenses

2010-02-13 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > No, you give rights (to modify and redistribute) via the license to > everybody, but not the copyright. As a copyright holder you can do anything > with your original code (re-license it, use commercially etc.) but anyone > else can only do

Re: [Rd] long integer in R?

2010-02-13 Thread blue sky
> a) restriction of representable integers. Today's platforms use 32-bit > integers, but on 16-bit platforms is used to be 16-bit hence the "almost". Just to make sure if I understand you correctly. So there are no 64-bit intergers on any platform? __