Review of RStudio (new IDE for R)

Posted by dmlorenzetti on Thursday March 03, 2011 @12:31PM
from the stat.columbia.edu dept.

http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2011/03/rstudio_first_impression.html

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Re:Review of RStudio (new IDE for R) by dmlorenzetti on Thursday March 03, 2011 @12:32PM (#2284893)

IDE announcement generated enthusiasm on HN a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271511

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Re:Review of RStudio (new IDE for R) by fluidcruft on Thursday March 03, 2011 @03:57PM (#2285736)

Isn't R GPLv2? Isn't that incompatible with AGPLv3?

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Re:Review of RStudio (new IDE for R) by hakl on Thursday March 03, 2011 @04:21PM (#2285839)

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

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Re:Review of RStudio (new IDE for R) by fluidcruft on Thursday March 03, 2011 @07:28PM (#2286375)

Well, I'll be. That certainly paints a different picture than what's stated in http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/

Thanks!

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Re:Review of RStudio (new IDE for R) by alsocasey on Thursday March 03, 2011 @05:41PM (#2286074)

Since R isn't included in RStudio, merely acting as an interface with the R session, I doubt this is an issue at all.

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Re:Review of RStudio (new IDE for R) by fluidcruft on Thursday March 03, 2011 @05:59PM (#2286127)

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.

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Re:Review of RStudio (new IDE for R) by atgm on Thursday March 03, 2011 @09:22PM (#2286682)

This is confusing because R-Studio (with a hyphen) is also a file recovery utility...

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