Hello, I'm not sure if it's correct, but I changed the license from gpl3+ to gpl2+ to keep it consistent with the r-markdown package (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility). Thanks for figuring that out.
New patch attached. 2015-09-14 8:17 GMT-03:00 Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]>: > Hi Vicente, > >> From 36f94f07cba5edea4897ac36b92a73bfc6a3258b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Vicente Vera Parra <[email protected]> >> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 13:20:29 -0300 >> Subject: [PATCH 11/19] gnu: Add r-knitr. > >> * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-knitr): New variable. > > [...] > >> + (synopsis "General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R") >> + (description >> + "Provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in >> +R using Literate Programming techniques.") > > As before, please provide a better description (at least by replacing > “Provides” in the first sentence with “This package provides”); and use > lower-case in the synopsis. > >> + (license license:gpl3+))) > > I don’t think this is correct. The package actually doesn’t declare the > version of the GPL. There are no license headers I could find and all > it says is > > “This package is free and open source software, licensed under GPL.” > > Furthermore, as noted before, there might be a license conflict when > combining “r-knitr” with “r-markdown”, because the latter is released > under “GPLv2 only”. > > I just asked the author about what version of the GPL was intended > here[1]. > > ~~ Ricardo > > [1]: https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/566#issuecomment-140042571
From b0090d8e9236595ad72b337168a08eb9369840ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vicente Vera Parra <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:05:24 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 11/12] gnu: Add r-knitr. * gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r-knitr): New variable. --- gnu/packages/statistics.scm | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm index 9794908..e1f16d5 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm @@ -700,3 +700,29 @@ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown for more information about Markdown.") "This package implements the libyaml YAML 1.1 parser and emitter (http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML) for R.") (license license:bsd-3))) + +(define-public r-knitr + (package + (name "r-knitr") + (version "1.11") + (source (origin + (method url-fetch) + (uri (string-append "mirror://cran/src/contrib/knitr_" + version ".tar.gz")) + (sha256 + (base32 "1ikjla0hnpjfkdbydqhhqypc0aiizbi4nyn8c694sdk9ca4jasdd")))) + (build-system r-build-system) + (propagated-inputs + `(("r-evaluate" ,r-evaluate) + ("r-digest" ,r-digest) + ("r-formatr" ,r-formatr) + ("r-highr" ,r-highr) + ("r-markdown" ,r-markdown) + ("r-stringr" ,r-stringr) + ("r-yaml" ,r-yaml))) + (home-page "http://yihui.name/knitr/";) + (synopsis "General-purpose package for dynamic report generation in R") + (description + "This package provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report +generation in R using Literate Programming techniques.") + (license license:gpl2+))) -- 2.5.2
