Hello Everyone, Just finished reading A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R by Everitt and Hothorn. I'll begin by saying that I quite liked the book. It's both little and mighty in the sense that it's very compact but contains a tremendous amount of useful material. The last chapter of the book deals with cluster analysis. There's a package used in this chapter (I believe that it's called mclust) that charges an annual fee to non-academics. I did a little digging and found out that the annual cost for some one like me would be $100 but it would cost more for people in large companies. This isn't exactly outrageous but got me to wondering how many other packages might not be free. I searched online but didn't find much. Does anyone have any information about this? Thanks, Paul [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
http://depts.washington.edu/uwc4c/express-licenses/files/view/license/35/ <http://depts.washington.edu/uwc4c/express-licenses/files/view/license/35/>Only Revolution charges (but they have atleast 5 packages by now) apart from enhanced core libraries. Rattle has a commercial version as well _it is a R GUI Rattle can be purchased on DVD as a standalone installation for $500USD ($560AUD), http://rattle.togaware.com/sales.html http://inferenceforr.com/purchase/default.aspx sells for 199$ Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Paul Miller <pjmiller_57@yahoo.com> wrote:> Hello Everyone, > > Just finished reading A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R by Everitt > and Hothorn. I'll begin by saying that I quite liked the book. It's both > little and mighty in the sense that it's very compact but contains a > tremendous amount of useful material. > > The last chapter of the book deals with cluster analysis. There's a > package used in this chapter (I believe that it's called mclust) that > charges an annual fee to non-academics. I did a little digging and found out > that the annual cost for some one like me would be $100 but it would cost > more for people in large companies. This isn't exactly outrageous but got me > to wondering how many other packages might not be free. I searched online > but didn't find much. > > Does anyone have any information about this? > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 01.10.2010 23:58, Paul Miller wrote:> Hello Everyone, > > Just finished reading A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R by Everitt and Hothorn. I'll begin by saying that I quite liked the book. It's both little and mighty in the sense that it's very compact but contains a tremendous amount of useful material. > > The last chapter of the book deals with cluster analysis. There's a package used in this chapter (I believe that it's called mclust) that charges an annual fee to non-academics. I did a little digging and found out that the annual cost for some one like me would be $100 but it would cost more for people in large companies. This isn't exactly outrageous but got me to wondering how many other packages might not be free. I searched online but didn't find much. > > Does anyone have any information about this?Are you talking about CRAN packages? If so, looking into the license information of the repository shows which have standard licenses such as GPL and which licenses are special. Just take a look, e.g. starting with download.file("http://cran.R-project.org/web/packages/packages.rds", "packages.rds", mode="wb") x <- .readRDS("packages.rds") x <- x[!duplicated(x[,1]),] table(x[,"License"]) Best, Uwe Ligges> > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Paul Miller <pjmiller_57 at yahoo.com> wrote:> Does anyone have any information about this? >Looking at cran2deb [1] you can get an idea of the CRAN packages that may qualify for Debian's restrictive notion of 'free'. Regards Liviu [1] http://debian.cran.r-project.org/latest_packages.html