Thanks Qiang. To clarify, Spark or SparkR does not depend on Rcpp.
And SparkR is part of the Spark source and binary release. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 1:31 PM Qiang Kou <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am sending this email for how to handle R package in an Apache project. > Any opinions or advice will be truly appreciated. > > In MXNet, R is one of the programming languages we support and we have an R > package for MXNet (https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet/tree/master/R-package). > > The MXNet R package relies on Rcpp, which is licensed under GPL >= 2. > > The R package is optional and will be skipped during the release. We have > provided the instructions on installing R and other dependencies if users > want to use the R interface. > > Our case is very similar with Spark, which also has an R package ( > https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/R/pkg). > > Is this acceptable by the foundation? *The R package is optional and > skipped during the release.* > > If not, what is the best practice to handle an R package in Apache > projects? > > Any comments or opinions are appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Qiang Kou > > -- > Qiang Kou > [email protected] > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University >
