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Review of RStudio (new IDE for R)
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columbia.edu
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dmlorenzetti
on March 3, 2011
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dmlorenzetti
on March 3, 2011
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IDE announcement generated enthusiasm on HN a few days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271511
fluidcruft
on March 3, 2011
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Isn't R GPLv2? Isn't that incompatible with AGPLv3?
hakl
on March 3, 2011
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I don't know anything about the details, but apparently it's mostly GPLv2 or later:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/COPYRIGHTS
fluidcruft
on March 4, 2011
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Well, I'll be. That certainly paints a different picture than what's stated in
http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/
Thanks!
alsocasey
on March 3, 2011
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Since R isn't included in RStudio, merely acting as an interface with the R session, I doubt this is an issue at all.
fluidcruft
on March 3, 2011
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RStudio has server and client components (rdesktop and rsession) and at least on the linux version rsession is dynamically linked to libR.so. R has historically been very lax about policing their binary API's for license violations, though.
atgm
on March 4, 2011
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This is confusing because R-Studio (with a hyphen) is also a file recovery utility...
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