[r-cran-spatstat] 13/38: Clarify how to obtain source of binary data files in copyright

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Author: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Date:   Mon May 27 07:16:02 2013 +0000

    Clarify how to obtain source of binary data files in copyright
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 debian/copyright | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index 1235c55..b289484 100644
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -16,6 +16,34 @@ Copyright: (C) 2005 - 2013 Adrian Baddeley and Rolf Turner,
            B.T. Scott, I.-M. Sintorn, M. Spiess, M. Stevenson, P. Surovy,
            B. Turlach, A. van Burgel, H. Wang and S. Wong.
 License: GPL2
+Comment: Regarding Files data/*.rda
+ Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 09:27:10 +0800
+ From: Adrian Baddeley <adrian.baddeley at uwa.edu.au>
+ Subject: Re: Demo data sets in spatstat R package
+ .
+ Yes, I could provide original data for each of the datasets in spatstat,
+ but may I suggest it would be easier and more reliable to use R 
+ to convert the compressed binary *.rda files back into readable text files. 
+ .
+ Example (in the R interpreter)
+            a <- load("amacrine.rda")
+            dump(a, file="amacrine.R")
+ .
+ Here 'a' is a vector of strings containing the names of the R objects
+ that were in the data file.
+ .
+ 'amacrine.R' is a text file that can replace 'amacrine.rda' in the data/
+ subdirectory.
+ .
+ I guess there may even be a way to do this automatically using the R package
+ builder;  for that you'd have to ask cran at r-project.org. Currently the package
+ builder/checker forces all data files into the compressed .rda format so
+ presumably this could be undone.
+ .
+ All the datasets in spatstat are covered by GPL >= 2
+ .
+ regards
+ Adrian
 
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