Is there any chance to use rjson instead of RJSONIO in googleVis

[Markus Gesmann]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the little challenge ;-) 

It appears to be straightforward to change googleVis from RJSONIO to jsonlite.

You can access version 0.6.0 of googleVis (using jsonlite) from GitHub: https://github.com/mages/googleVis.

I would very much appreciate, if you could test as well.

Best regards

Markus

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Markus Gesmann
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> On 2 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Markus Gesmann wrote:
>> We opted for RJSONIO at the time as we believed it is has the better performance.
>> 
>> If would start the project today, we would probably go with Jeroen Ooms’ jsonlite package, which is also MIT, as RJSONIO and rjson don’t appear to be actively developed anymore.
> 
> Jsonlite would be fine as well.
> 
>> Perhaps, you can encourage the other package developers to change their license. 
> 
> What package developers do you mean?  Do you think RJSONIO should change
> to pure MIT?  That's probably not possible since they are using code
> from the (famous) non-evil author who has fought endless flamewars to
> defend his crazy idea (as if evil people would care for a license ...
> :-().
> 
> Do you think there is much effort to port googleVis to jsonlite?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:31:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>> Hi Markus,
>>> 
>>> I intend to package googleVis for Debian.  I realised that it depends
>>> from RJSONIO which is using code with MIT-no-evil license - which is
>>> actually evil since it is non-free. 
>>> 
>>> Could googleVis be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead?  It is
>>> mentioned here in the Debian bug tracking system:
>>> 
>>>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32
>>> 
>>> This would be really helpful
>>> 
>>>      Andreas.
>>> 
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