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

[Andreas Tille]

Thanks a lot, that's very helpful, Andreas.

On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:47:55AM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> 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
> Blog: www.magesblog.com
> 
> > 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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