Oh, yes! There is also a RSoap interface. I did not mention it. Best,
Philippe Grosjean Liaw, Andy wrote: > I was under the impression that PP communicates with R via SOAP, but > what do I know... > > If I didn't read your description wrong, the "R Collection" contains > PP code (PilotScript?) for generating R code to be run by R, but does > not include R itself. If that's the case, I don't think it has any > licensing problem. If I write some R code that generates SAS code > (God forbid), I doubt that constitute violation of SAS license. > > Just my $0.02... > > Andy > > From: Philippe Grosjean > >>Hello all, >> >>Sorry for this email not directly related to R developement. >>I just come >>from a nice demonstration session from Scitegic about their Pipeline >>Pilot (PP) software, and especially their 'R collection' >>which brings R >>calculations into the software >>(http://www.scitegic.com/documents/RStats_Collection.pdf). >> >>I looked carefully on the way they do it: they pass data from PP to R >>using text files, they call R.exe using a R script and input - output >>files, like: >> >>R.exe --nosave --no-environ --no-resore-data < script.R > output.txt >> >>And in the script, you have: >> >>read.table(...) >> >>which imports the data just exported from PP in an CVS file by the >>component. I don't want to discuss here the ugly and extremely >>inefficient solution they use to call R on their data, but anyway... >> >>So far, so good, they respect the GPL license since R is not embedded >>into PP, and you have to download and install it separately. >> >>But they also provide a series of "R component" ready to use like 'R >>ANOVA', 'R PCA', R Neural Net', etc... which are basically R scripts >>with replaceable variables (replacement is done by PP before >>feeding the >>script to the R engine). For instance, you will have: >> >>parameter <- $(PPvariable) >> >>in the R script. In the PP component, you have an option to >>specify the >>value of 'PPvariable', let's say: PPvariable = 10, and the >>replacement >>done in the R script is: >> >>parameter <- 10 >> >>before to feed this script to R. So, everything appears >>transparent to >>the end-user who parameterizes the scripts from within the PP >>GUI. That >>is what they call "each component generates an R script >>on-the-fly"... >>(sic!) >> >>However, I was suprised to learn that the Pipeline Pilot R >>Collection is >>not GPL and is not free (in term of money, i.e., you have to pay >>3500$/year to use it). I am not sure, but I think they break the GPL >>license here since they use a commercial license for, basically, a >>collection of R scripts embedded in their 'PP components'. >> >>Anyone with better expertise than me could look at this, please? >> >>Best, >> >>Philippe Grosjean >> >>-- >>..............................................<°}))><........ >> ) ) ) ) ) >>( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean >> ) ) ) ) ) >>( ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems >> ) ) ) ) ) Mons-Hainaut University, Belgium >>( ( ( ( ( >>.............................................................. >> >>______________________________________________ >>R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachment...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
