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 q...@umail.iu.edu School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
