Hi Robert,
I've run more experiments (and yes, the code is probably too long for
the list). The tradeoffs are platform dependent. The "nobreak" version
is slower than "break" on a corei7 (i7-3610QM), it is faster on opteron
(6282) and it is about the same on Xeon (E5-2640, E5-2670 even though
Hi Frederik,
On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 18:20 -0800, frede...@ofb.net wrote:
> Hi R Devel,
>
> I wrote some code which depends on 'strptime' being able to parse an
> incomplete date, like this:
>
> >
> > base::strptime("2016","%Y")
> [1] "2016-01-14 PST"
>
> The above works - although it's odd that
On 10/12/16 00:22, Paul Gilbert wrote:
In R 3.3.2 detectCores() in package parallel reports 2 rather than 1 on
Raspberry Pi B+ running Raspbian. (This report is just 'for the record'.
The model is superseded and I think no longer produced.) The problem
seems to be caused by
grep processor /pro
Please don't use 'Unlimited' or 'Unlimited + ...'.
Google's lawyers don't recognize 'Unlimited' as being open-source, so
our policy doesn't allow us to use such packages due to lack of an
acceptable license. To our lawyers, 'Unlimited + file LICENSE' means
something very different than it presuma
On 18.01.2017 00:13, Karl Millar wrote:
Please don't use 'Unlimited' or 'Unlimited + ...'.
Google's lawyers don't recognize 'Unlimited' as being open-source, so
our policy doesn't allow us to use such packages due to lack of an
acceptable license. To our lawyers, 'Unlimited + file LICENSE' me
Unfortunately, our lawyers say that they can't give legal advice in
this context.
My question would be, what are people looking for that the MIT or
2-clause BSD license don't provide? They're short, clear, widely
accepted and very permissive. Another possibility might be to
dual-license packages
The Free Software Foundation maintains a list of free and GPL-compatible
software licenses here:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Unlicense
It appears that Unlicense is considered a free and GPL-compatible license;
however, the page does suggest using CC0 instead (which is indeed
