[R] R-Project at university.

[R. Michael Weylandt]

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
>
>
>
> .
>
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