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To R-devel, In a future release of R, would it be possible to export tools:::analyze_license()? This would make it easier to implement copyright protections in alternative CRAN-like repositories. I would like to be able to programmatically scan an individual license string before accepting a new package. Will Landau [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...e my library of packages I would not have installed had I known about this option earlier (I'm looking at you, "gam"!). Short of erasing the whole directory of libraries and re-installing it, is there an easy way of achieving this? I could probably roll something based on tools:::analyze_license() but I think the erase-and-reinstall option might be easier in this case :-) Allan