R devel - Jan 2008 - Distributing R Programs

We recently developed an R program as part of an application. We'd like to
distribute this, but not allow access to the R source code. Is this
possible?

CapCity wrote:
> We recently developed an R program as part of an application. We'd like
to
> distribute this, but not allow access to the R source code. Is this
> possible?
>
>   
Not in any obvious way, and I don't think anyone around here would 
volunteer to help you find out.

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Hi there Super-Secret CapCity,

On Jan 28, 2008 10:41 AM, CapCity <sg0000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> We recently developed an R program as part of an application. We'd like
to
> distribute this, but not allow access to the R source code. Is this
> possible?
if your code is using the R language (not native code) the short
answer is no and the hacker-safe answer is no.  You can use body() to
fake the source-code of a function, but that is easy to get around.  I
don't know of any R obfuscators.

See also http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html
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