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

[Markus Gesmann]

Hi Andreas,

Version 0.6.0 of googleVis is on its way to CRAN. 
A tagged released archive is available via GitHub.

Fingers crossed!

Best regards

MArkus 

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> On 4 Jul 2016, at 16:46, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote:
>> I haven't published the new version on CRAN yet, as I hoped you would test the package beforehand. 
> 
> Ahh, OK - so waiting for CRAN update is pointless. :-)
> 
>> Can you do that?
> 
> Yes, but could you please tag the release since this enables automatic
> download of release tarballs which saves me the work of writing a
> download script as instead just pointing an existing tool to the Github
> URL.  Tagging releases makes sense anyway.
> 
>> I would hate to make the change to jsonlite if anything would stop working as a result of this. 
> 
> ACK.
> 
>> Best regards 
> 
> Same
> 
>     Andreas.
> 
>> Markus
>> 
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>>> On 4 Jul 2016, at 13:27, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi again,
>>> 
>>> seems the new version needs some time to show up on CRAN.  Is there any
>>> chance that you set tags for the release versions on Github which would
>>> simplify downloading the tarball a lot?
>>> 
>>> Kind regards
>>> 
>>>       Andreas.
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 02:35:11PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> —
>>>>> 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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