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

[Sarah Goslee]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Galkowski, Jan <jgalkows at akamai.com> 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.

All the R code is in functionINIT.R. Are you objecting because the
authors combined everything into one file, or is there some other
issue I've missed?

All the code is present, all the documentation is present, DESCRIPTION
contains exactly what it's supposed to, including a citation for a JSS
article on the package.

I'm not seeing what the problem is. Could you explain further what
you're expecting?

Sarah

>  - 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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