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The hidden costs of GPL software?

3 messages · Richard O'Keefe, Yuandan Zhang, Brian Ripley

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Richard O'Keefe
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Background:  I'm a Computer Science lecturer, and I read the blue book cover
to cover before ever setting finger to keyboard with R.

Observation:  I really only use R for very simple things, but there's
practically *nothing* I've done with R since installing it could have
been done via menus.  I seem to need lots of little R functions, lots
of little try this transformation plot that, fiddle with the other...
I've had a student use it, I've introduced it to colleauges, and they
would not have benefited one iota from a GUI interface.

I'm glad that the effort put into R has gone into the things it has.
Yuandan Zhang
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Hi,

I try to install genetics_1.1.1.tar.gz and get following errors. it looks for a package call 'gdata'. I looked and search r-project web, did not find any thing
* Installing *source* package 'genetics' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(i[[1]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), keep.source) :
        There is no package called 'gdata'
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'genetics'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/library/genetics'
** Restoring previous '/usr/local/lib/R/library/genetics'

Can you help me out this?

Yuandan
Brian Ripley
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Depends:  combinat, gdata, MASS

Now, gdata is part of the gregmisc bundle.
would have figured this out for you.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Yuandan Zhang wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Really?: please search the list of packages at

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html

again, for my browser finds `gdata' there.