Re: [R] S-PLUS 8 beta program [repost]

[elvis@xlsolutions-corp.com]

Great News!  David, do you QA the new code and publish bugs

so R users (or authors) can be aware of them?

 

--- David Smith <dsmith@insightful.com> wrote:

> The GPL code is available as separately-downloaded
> packages for S-PLUS, as
> has been done for many years. My own Oswald library
> for S-PLUS was published
> under the GPL in 1997, for example, and many other
> authors produce
> open-source libraries for S-PLUS under a variety of
> licenses.  The only
> difference is that they will be packaged as, well,
> packages rather than
> libraries.
>
> # David Smith
>
> --
> David M Smith <dsmith@insightful.com>
> Senior Product Manager, Insightful Corp, Seattle WA
> Tel: +1 (206) 802 2360
> Fax: +1 (206) 283 6310
>
> Insightful Corporation (www.insightful.com) provides
> analytical solutions for
> text and data using S-PLUS, Insightful Miner, InFact
> and consulting services.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Philippe Grosjean
> [mailto:phgrosjean@sciviews.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:06 PM
> > To: David Smith
> > Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] S-PLUS 8 beta program [repost]
> >
> >
> > This is an excellent initiative! But how can you
> integrate
> > GPL code in a
> > software that is not GPL? As far as I understand
> it, GPL is a
> > contaminant license, imposing to the whole
> software to be GPL too (or
> > providing at least similar freedom). I have no
> doubt that you solved
> > this problem. I am just curious about the solution
> you found.
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Philippe Grosjean
> >
> >
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> >   ) ) ) ) )
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> (3D08)
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> Wallonie-Bruxelles
> >   ) ) ) ) )   8, av du Champ de Mars, 7000 Mons,
> Belgium
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> >   ) ) ) ) )   phone: + 32.65.37.34.97, fax: +
> 32.65.37.30.54
> > ( ( ( ( (    email: Philippe.Grosjean@umh.ac.be
> >   ) ) ) ) )
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> >   ) ) ) ) )          http://www.sciviews.org
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> >
> ..............................................................
> >
> > David Smith wrote:
> > > [Sorry about the duplicate posting; this one
> comes from the
> > correct address.
> > > Please respond to me with any questions about
> this -- David.]
> > >
> > > Dear R-help readers,
> > >
> > >  As Insightful announced at the DSC2005 meeting
> in
> > Seattle, the next
> > > release of S-PLUS will introduce a new package
> system. Our
> > goal is to provide
> > > package authors the means to create cutting-edge
> statistical methods
> > > currently available either as R packages or as
> S-PLUS
> > library sections and
> > > deliver them to the entire community of S-PLUS
> and R users.
> > >
> > >  In this release of S-PLUS, we plan to implement
> many low-level
> > > utility functions with the same API as R. Just
> as many R
> > functions originated
> > > in S-PLUS, we plan on re-implementing many R
> functions in
> > S-PLUS to provide
> > > S-PLUS users the ability to create packages of
> their work
> > and distribute them
> > > to others as R users have done for many years.
> In the
> > future, we expect
> > > package authors will be able to create a single
> package
> > that will run in both
> > > environments. The actual package system would be
> a port of
> > the R package
> > > system code, which furthers the exchangeability
> of S-PLUS
> > and R code. The
> > > ported code will be available in a GPL library
> called Rcompat
> > >
> > >  To demonstrate that R packages can now be
> ported to
> > S-PLUS, we have -
> > > with the permissions of the authors - ported
> several R
> > packages to run as
> > > S-PLUS packages. We are planning to make these
> packages
> > available for
> > > download from an Insightful-hosted website
> (called
> > csan.insightful.com for
> > > consistency with the CRAN site of R packages).
> The license
> > terms of the
> > > source packages will always be respected, and
> these
> > packages will all be
> > > available under their original open-source
> license. Any
> > improvements to
> > > open-source packages, whether by Insightful or
> by others,
> > will remain
> > > open-source. Our intent will be to grow the list
> of open-source,
> > > cross-system-compatible packages over time.
> > >
> > >  While most existing R packages will not run
> > automatically in S-PLUS,
> > > with some effort, a user should be able to port
> an existing
> > R package to an
> > > S-PLUS package. More important, by using
> functions and
> > interfaces now
> > > available in both systems, a user should be able
> to create
> > a single package
> > > that will run in both S-PLUS and R in the
> future. (The
> > judicious use of some
> > > system-specific if(is.R()) statement will help
> to this
> > end.) As a proof of
> > > concept, we are developing a package that will
> run on both
> > systems.  In the
> > > future, we hope to post this package on both
> CSAN and CRAN
> > sites. We are also
> > > working to provide S-PLUS library sections from
> our
> > research group as S-PLUS
> > > packages that would also work in R.
> > >
> > >  Our work on the S-PLUS package functionality is
>
> > ongoing. We expect to
> > > begin beta testing in April. We invite R package
> authors
> > who are interested
> > > in testing their packages in S-PLUS to
> participate in the
> > beta test. As a
> > > beta participant, you will receive a beta
> version of S-PLUS
> > that will be
> > > fully functional until the end of the beta
> period. You will
> > also be able to
> > > send input to the development team regarding the
> S-PLUS
> > package system. If
> > > you are a package author, and you are interested
> in
> > participating in the beta
> > > test, see the full details on the S-PLUS 8 beta
> test and
>
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