R-Project at university.

Disclaimer: I am a lawyer so this all should be verified elsewhere,
but best I understand it (and would welcome verification by someone
who knows more about this):

The R-Project (broadly taken) is an extensive collection of packages +
a core interpreter. The interpreter, the base packages, and most
available add-on packages are licensed on the GPL (GNU Public
License). Consequently they are free for use, no charge for anyone:
however, commercial redistribution is trickier since the GPL is
"copyleft". If you don't have any intent to redistribute (i.e., to
write R code to give to anyone else) the license questions almost
certainly don't apply to you. If you are wiling to put your code under
a widely accepted open-source license, it is quite easy to
redistribute and the R-Project (in the form of CRAN) provides a
powerful platform for doing so.

Much more information can be found about this here:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

Certainly, in my experience, it is widely used by faculty and students
in an academic context with no legal worries.

R is an interpreted language, so one can't make executables from it.
Anything else you want to do, you can do for free. Including ordering
pizza! (though I imagine one would still be expected to pay for the
pizza)

Michael

Dear reader, I'm a student on engineering studies at Silesian University of
Technology in Gliwice in Poland, my field of study is Technology and
Mechanical Engineering on Integrated process of manufacturing systems, also
I held a Bachelor's degree on Automation and Robotics. However I have a view
questions about the R-Project, as far as I'm aware of on your website the
program appears to be free to use, which captured my eyes, but does that
mean this program (r-project) can be used by any degree students, for
instance as a leaner or a teacher, on the other hand are there any
limitations of how the program can be used, for example if I wanted to
compile *.exe program file using the R program could that be achieved,
without any cost.

Although I request further information on terms and condition, including
license, and any other useful information about using r-project as learning
tool for university students and projects.

Hope to hear from you soon, thank you for your time.



sincerely Karol Porwol



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and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

I suggest you read the GNU license included in the source code and on the CRAN website. The essence is that you are free to use it, and to change it, but if you pass your changes on to anyone else, you have to make the source code of those changes available to those whom you give it to. Most users do not need to concern themselves with the conditions, since most users don't change it.

Regarding compiling .exe files, R is not really designed for that.
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Dear reader, I'm a student on engineering studies at Silesian
University of
Technology in Gliwice in Poland, my field of study is Technology and
Mechanical Engineering on Integrated process of manufacturing systems,
also
I held a Bachelor's degree on Automation and Robotics. However I have a
view
questions about the R-Project, as far as I'm aware of on your website
the
program appears to be free to use, which captured my eyes, but does
that
mean this program (r-project) can be used by any degree students, for
instance as a leaner or a teacher, on the other hand are there any
limitations of how the program can be used, for example if I wanted to
compile *.exe program file using the R program could that be achieved,
without any cost.

Although I request further information on terms and condition,
including
license, and any other useful information about using r-project as
learning
tool for university students and projects.

Hope to hear from you soon, thank you for your time.



sincerely Karol Porwol



.


[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

______________________________________________
R-help at r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.