[R] Wolfram Engine for Developers

[Anarcocapitalista Socialdemocrata]

I think the Wolfram license is for non-profit, i.e. users and NGOs.
Companies making a profit should buy a license. IMHO, the strategy is to
increase Wolfram user base.

For R and RStudio, it would make sense to add Wolfram to become a
comprehensive solution to do science. R is of course mostly statistical. R
competes very well with Python in the areas R does well. But in anything
not numerical, but symbolic, R lacks a lot. Instead, Python has SymPy and
Sagemath.

So, a scientist may switch from R to Python, due to the combined numerical
and symbolic capabilities.

Instead, if RStudio could use Wolfram, then a scientist would have better
symbolic than Python (or the same, since Jupyter already interfaces
Wolfram), RStudio which is better than Jupyter, better statistics than
Python and better c++ integration than Python.

At least me, I am in this conundrum. With integration to Wolfram, it would
be a no-brainer to remain with R.

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 20:28 peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:

> Even from a cursory glance, it is clear that this product is not Free
> Software, not even Free as in Beer. It cannot be used by end users of open
> source projects unless you apply for a special license from Wolfram, which
> I strongly suspect would render the whole project in violation of the GPL
> license that R has.
>
> It is possible that you could write an interface from R to WED. The
> licensing questions around "derived works" are a bit murky, but as far as I
> know it is OK for a GPL'ed software to _use_ a commercial software,
> assuming that the user has the appropriate license. However, I fail to see
> that such an interface would be a major selling point for R.
>
> -pd
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> > On 5 Jul 2019, at 19:30 , Jordi Molins <anarco.socialdemocrata using gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Wolfram Engine for Developers is now free (under some circumstances). Is
> it
> > possible to call Wolfram from R, especially from RStudio?
> >
> > Being able to do this would significantly increase the potential of R, I
> > believe.
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