Message-ID: <83CE6FF8F6C9B2468A618FC2C512672605ED636852@USMBX1.msg.corp.akamai.com>
Date: 2011-06-27T15:14:25Z
From: Galkowski, Jan
Subject: Standards for delivery of GPL software in CRAN packages
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikSuZiNSSWjxnKH0KV1Qvvdd=aj7A@mail.gmail.com>
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.
- 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