[R-pkg-devel] Best practise in including third party code

[Ben Bolker]

   I would recommend copying the snippet/minor function into your own
code, with attribution/citation (and, as a courtesy, e-mailing the
maintainer of the package to let them know).
   The only disadvantage I can think of in this approach is that you
won't automatically benefit from bug fixes or other improvements in
the upstream code.

  cheers
    Ben Bolker

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 5:45 AM Wolfgang Lenhard
<wolfgang.lenhard using uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>
> Dear R developer list,
> in general, if functionality from other packages are used in one's own
> package, it is of course the best way to declare the other package as an
> import. What is the straight forward way for only minor functions or
> functionality, especially when the other package comes with a lot
> dependencies itself? Is it advisable or ok to only use the according
> third party source code snippet and cite the other package (of course if
> the license of the package allows it; own package is AGPL, third package
> is GPL)? Or should the third party package always be installed as a
> dependency? I want to avoid bloating the installation process but it is
> very important for me not to violate academic standards, intellectual
> properties and best practise.
>
> Thanks,
> Wolfgang
>
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