Dear reader, I'm a student on engineering studies at Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice in Poland, my field of study is Technology and Mechanical Engineering on Integrated process of manufacturing systems, also I held a Bachelor's degree on Automation and Robotics. However I have a view questions about the R-Project, as far as I'm aware of on your website the program appears to be free to use, which captured my eyes, but does that mean this program (r-project) can be used by any degree students, for instance as a leaner or a teacher, on the other hand are there any limitations of how the program can be used, for example if I wanted to compile *.exe program file using the R program could that be achieved, without any cost. Although I request further information on terms and condition, including license, and any other useful information about using r-project as learning tool for university students and projects. Hope to hear from you soon, thank you for your time. sincerely Karol Porwol . [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Disclaimer: I am a lawyer so this all should be verified elsewhere, but best I understand it (and would welcome verification by someone who knows more about this): The R-Project (broadly taken) is an extensive collection of packages + a core interpreter. The interpreter, the base packages, and most available add-on packages are licensed on the GPL (GNU Public License). Consequently they are free for use, no charge for anyone: however, commercial redistribution is trickier since the GPL is "copyleft". If you don't have any intent to redistribute (i.e., to write R code to give to anyone else) the license questions almost certainly don't apply to you. If you are wiling to put your code under a widely accepted open-source license, it is quite easy to redistribute and the R-Project (in the form of CRAN) provides a powerful platform for doing so. Much more information can be found about this here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Certainly, in my experience, it is widely used by faculty and students in an academic context with no legal worries. R is an interpreted language, so one can't make executables from it. Anything else you want to do, you can do for free. Including ordering pizza! (though I imagine one would still be expected to pay for the pizza) Michael On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sylhetrin <sylhetrin at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear reader, I'm a student on engineering studies at Silesian University of > Technology in Gliwice in Poland, my field of study is Technology and > Mechanical Engineering on Integrated process of manufacturing systems, also > I held a Bachelor's degree on Automation and Robotics. However I have a view > questions about the R-Project, as far as I'm aware of on your website the > program appears to be free to use, which captured my eyes, but does that > mean this program (r-project) can be used by any degree students, for > instance as a leaner or a teacher, on the other hand are there any > limitations of how the program can be used, for example if I wanted to > compile *.exe program file using the R program could that be achieved, > without any cost. > > Although I request further information on terms and condition, including > license, and any other useful information about using r-project as learning > tool for university students and projects. > > Hope to hear from you soon, thank you for your time. > > > > sincerely Karol Porwol > > > > . > > > ? ? ? ?[[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.
I suggest you read the GNU license included in the source code and on the CRAN
website. The essence is that you are free to use it, and to change it, but if
you pass your changes on to anyone else, you have to make the source code of
those changes available to those whom you give it to. Most users do not need to
concern themselves with the conditions, since most users don't change it.
Regarding compiling .exe files, R is not really designed for that.
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Sylhetrin <sylhetrin at gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear reader, I'm a student on engineering studies at Silesian
>University of
>Technology in Gliwice in Poland, my field of study is Technology and
>Mechanical Engineering on Integrated process of manufacturing systems,
>also
>I held a Bachelor's degree on Automation and Robotics. However I have a
>view
>questions about the R-Project, as far as I'm aware of on your website
>the
>program appears to be free to use, which captured my eyes, but does
>that
>mean this program (r-project) can be used by any degree students, for
>instance as a leaner or a teacher, on the other hand are there any
>limitations of how the program can be used, for example if I wanted to
>compile *.exe program file using the R program could that be achieved,
>without any cost.
>
>Although I request further information on terms and condition,
>including
>license, and any other useful information about using r-project as
>learning
>tool for university students and projects.
>
>Hope to hear from you soon, thank you for your time.
>
>
>
>sincerely Karol Porwol
>
>
>
>.
>
>
> [[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.