[R] Standards for delivery of GPL software in CRAN packages

[Uwe Ligges]

On 27.06.2011 17:14, Galkowski, Jan wrote:
> Fine.  Attached. It's "waved".
>
> All it has is *.Rd files. Apparently the functions are collected in "functionINIT.R". But "00Index" and "DESCRIPTION" are not helpful.

Are you joking or just pulling us?
All these files are interpreted by R and essential for the package. If 
you do not know how R documentation files and  R files work, read the 
docs, but do not blame anybody for not providing sources. The sources 
are there, you just cannot read them, obviously!

Uwe Ligges

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>   - j
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b.rowlingson at googlemail.com [mailto:b.rowlingson at googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 10:18 AM
> To: Galkowski, Jan
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Standards for delivery of GPL software in CRAN packages
>
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Galkowski, Jan<jgalkows at akamai.com>  wrote:
>> I wondered if there were standard practices in CRAN for delivery of R source implementing functions in R packages. I has encountered a couple of packages where the gzipped version of source contains very little, primarily the Help files describing the functions in the package. In some cases I can find the source as the value of the function name.
>>
>> Given that these packages are released as GPL, oughtn't the unoptimized source be freely available, hopefully with comments? Am I missing something? Is there a central place other than mirrors where such source is retained? Sourceforge?
>>
>
> The 'package source' link on CRAN should point you to a tar.gz file
> that contains the source code. For example, for splancs off the heanet
> mirror it is:
>
> http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/splancs_2.01-27.tar.gz
>
>   .tar.gz files from those links should have full R, C and Fortran source code.
>
> I think we need counter-examples...
>
> Barry
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