Hello all! I hope this is the right place to post this question. The Oregon Chapter of ASA is working with local high school teachers as one of its outreaching program. We hope to use and test R as teaching tools. So, we think that a menu system (like R commander) with a few packages and a bit simplified installation instruction need to be developed. The main question is: 1) Is it OK to develop a customized CD-ROM distribution of R with pre-selected packages for high school? It will be distributed free, of course. Also, we plan to make it available from the chap web or deposit it to R-project, if requested. 2) If the customized distribution CD is OK, I also hope to get some technical help/advice from the core group members if any one is interested. Thank you very much in advance, Dongseok Choi, PhD The President of the Oregon Chapter of the ASA [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 6/26/2006 3:14 PM, Dongseok Choi wrote:> Hello all! > > I hope this is the right place to post this question. > > The Oregon Chapter of ASA is working with local high school teachers as one of its outreaching program. > We hope to use and test R as teaching tools. > So, we think that a menu system (like R commander) with a few packages and a bit simplified installation instruction need to be developed. > > The main question is: > 1) > Is it OK to develop a customized CD-ROM distribution of R with pre-selected packages for high school? > It will be distributed free, of course. > Also, we plan to make it available from the chap web or deposit it to R-project, if requested.Generally the answer is yes, but read the GPL for the conditions. You do need to make the source code available.> > 2) > If the customized distribution CD is OK, I also hope to get some technical help/advice from the core group members if any one is interested.See the R Installation and Administration manual first. It tells how to build R installers with non-standard included packages. Hopefully for 2.4.0 more customizations will be possible. Duncan Murdoch
From: Duncan Murdoch> > On 6/26/2006 3:14 PM, Dongseok Choi wrote: > > Hello all! > > > > I hope this is the right place to post this question. > > > > The Oregon Chapter of ASA is working with local high > school teachers as one of its outreaching program. > > We hope to use and test R as teaching tools. > > So, we think that a menu system (like R commander) with a > few packages and a bit simplified installation instruction > need to be developed. > > > > The main question is: > > 1) > > Is it OK to develop a customized CD-ROM distribution of R > with pre-selected packages for high school? > > It will be distributed free, of course. > > Also, we plan to make it available from the chap web or > deposit it to R-project, if requested. > > Generally the answer is yes, but read the GPL for the > conditions. You do need to make the source code available.I was under the impression that telling the user how to get the source code would satisfy the GPL, instead of distributing the source along with the binary. Is that right?> > 2) > > If the customized distribution CD is OK, I also hope to > get some technical help/advice from the core group members if > any one is interested. > > See the R Installation and Administration manual first. It > tells how to build R installers with non-standard included > packages. Hopefully for 2.4.0 more customizations will be possible.Yes, it's not all that hard. Follow the directions carefully and literally and there shouldn't be problem. Andy> Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >
On 6/27/2006 8:05 AM, Liaw, Andy wrote:> > From: Duncan Murdoch >> >> On 6/26/2006 3:14 PM, Dongseok Choi wrote: >> > Hello all! >> > >> > I hope this is the right place to post this question. >> > >> > The Oregon Chapter of ASA is working with local high >> school teachers as one of its outreaching program. >> > We hope to use and test R as teaching tools. >> > So, we think that a menu system (like R commander) with a >> few packages and a bit simplified installation instruction >> need to be developed. >> > >> > The main question is: >> > 1) >> > Is it OK to develop a customized CD-ROM distribution of R >> with pre-selected packages for high school? >> > It will be distributed free, of course. >> > Also, we plan to make it available from the chap web or >> deposit it to R-project, if requested. >> >> Generally the answer is yes, but read the GPL for the >> conditions. You do need to make the source code available. > > I was under the impression that telling the user how to get the source code > would satisfy the GPL, instead of distributing the source along with the > binary. Is that right?Possibly, but not necessarily. See section 3 of the GPL, distributed in the COPYING file with R. Duncan Murdoch