Hi, R Developers, I'm interested in porting the R example datasets package to GNU Octave and Matlab. Would you have objections to my doing so?
This would involve transforming the example data and metadata into a format that Octave understands, and porting all of the datasets' Example code pieces to Octave M-code. (This would require no work on your part; it'd be my project.) I think this would be a benefit to the scientific programming community. In addition to helping Octave users, having code for identical example data sets in both languages would serve as a Rosetta Stone for not only users moving from R to Octave, but for users coming from Octave or Matlab to R. Since R's datasets package is GPL, I think I'd be within my rights to just do this. But I wanted to ask first, to make sure I didn't ruffle any feathers. I would include documentation indicating that R is the original source (well, intermediate source) for these datasets, and have links pointing back to R's documentation. Cheers, Andrew Janke ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
