Is there any chance to use rjson instead of RJSONIO in googleVis

Markus Gesmann markus.gesmann at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 4 13:47:46 UTC 2016


Hi Andreas,

I haven't published the new version on CRAN yet, as I hoped you would test the package beforehand. 

Can you do that?  

I would hate to make the change to jsonlite if anything would stop working as a result of this. 

Best regards 

Markus

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> On 4 Jul 2016, at 13:27, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> seems the new version needs some time to show up on CRAN.  Is there any
> chance that you set tags for the release versions on Github which would
> simplify downloading the tarball a lot?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:35:11PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Thanks a lot, that's very helpful, Andreas.
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:47:55AM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote:
>>> Hi Andreas,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the little challenge ;-) 
>>> 
>>> It appears to be straightforward to change googleVis from RJSONIO to jsonlite.
>>> 
>>> You can access version 0.6.0 of googleVis (using jsonlite) from GitHub: https://github.com/mages/googleVis.
>>> 
>>> I would very much appreciate, if you could test as well.
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> Markus
>>> 
>>>>>> Markus Gesmann
>>> Blog: www.magesblog.com
>>> 
>>>> On 2 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Markus,
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Markus Gesmann wrote:
>>>>> We opted for RJSONIO at the time as we believed it is has the better performance.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If would start the project today, we would probably go with Jeroen Ooms’ jsonlite package, which is also MIT, as RJSONIO and rjson don’t appear to be actively developed anymore.
>>>> 
>>>> Jsonlite would be fine as well.
>>>> 
>>>>> Perhaps, you can encourage the other package developers to change their license.
>>>> 
>>>> What package developers do you mean?  Do you think RJSONIO should change
>>>> to pure MIT?  That's probably not possible since they are using code
>>>> from the (famous) non-evil author who has fought endless flamewars to
>>>> defend his crazy idea (as if evil people would care for a license ...
>>>> :-().
>>>> 
>>>> Do you think there is much effort to port googleVis to jsonlite?
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards
>>>> 
>>>>      Andreas.
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:31:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Markus,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I intend to package googleVis for Debian.  I realised that it depends
>>>>>> from RJSONIO which is using code with MIT-no-evil license - which is
>>>>>> actually evil since it is non-free. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Could googleVis be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead?  It is
>>>>>> mentioned here in the Debian bug tracking system:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This would be really helpful
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>     Andreas.
>>>>>> 
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