Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Spencer Graves
On 5/12/2014 8:21 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: One company I know installed an S-Plus or R package only on servers, so their customers had to use it on a server. (In this case, the customers had a GUI and may not have known that it

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: >One company I know installed an S-Plus or R package only on > servers, so their customers had to use it on a server. (In this case, > the customers had a GUI and may not have known that it was S-Plus or R > behind it.) This company

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Spencer Graves
On 5/12/2014 7:28 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ashis Deb wrote: Well it's the company requirement to do so , and give it on a trial basis to client to check , if they like they will BUY or it will self destruct itself , No, if they like it they w

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ashis Deb wrote: > Well it's the company requirement to do so , and give it on a trial > basis to client to check , if they like they will BUY or it will self > destruct itself , No, if they like it they will BUY or they will CIRCUMVENT your self-de

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Ashis Deb wrote: > Hi all , > > >I have a GUI package , which I want to make it > work for a certain period,say-30days ,after which it should be self > destructive . > > Could it be possible ?? > Yes. But why bother? Can y

Re: [R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Helios de Rosario
I guess you could write some instructions in the "configure" file ("configure.win" for windows) at the root level of the package subdirectory, to create a scheduled task to uninstall and delete the package after a fixed period. That script would normally execute at the moment of installation. See "

[R] Making a trial based Package for 30-days.

2014-05-12 Thread Ashis Deb
Hi all , I have a GUI package , which I want to make it work for a certain period,say-30days ,after which it should be self destructive . Could it be possible ?? ASHIS [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __