I have some R code for doing (a slightly enhanced version of) the parallelogram method for on-leveling premium: R code Sweave example formatted output.
It was originally released as a FAViR paper. Should I do anything with this code? Should I try to get it on CRAN as a package?
Thanks for any thoughts,
Ben
My opinion? The CAS should have its own Github repository for offerings like this. Peer review stays under the CRAN radar. "Bugs" (I'm sure there aren't any!) can be dealt with just amongst us.
Do you need folks to run it through its paces? Is it in the form of a package (with help files, namespace, etc) and easy to download and build with RStudio?
If a CAS repository makes sense (and I think it does), have a look here: [https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-new-organization-account/].
As a non-prof, I'm pretty sure that the CAS can get Atlassian's Stash for free. See the Atlassian Community License Request.
Hey Avi, I can't figure out what the Atlassian Stash is, or its advantage over other free repositories, e.g., github
Stash is the repository management software and can be installed on CAS servers and be controlled completely by the CAS and subject to its licensure etc.
Ok it sounds like I should turn into a package so people can try it out more easily. After that perhaps the testers can suggest what to do with it. Even if CRAN isn't the best place for it, making it into a package will mostly involve steps that will be necessary anyway, and the R package build mechanism does some automatic checks for you.
About Github, I personally would prefer Bitbucket or some other repository that supports Mercurial (like Sourceforge or Savannah) but it seems here most people like Github so I might as well learn and use that. After all, the choice seems pretty much about fashion, and all the cool kids prefer Github these days. I can't find his post now, but a while ago Avi pointed out that Github can make licensing issues more problematic if you don't pay attention, but R packages require prominent licensing information anyway, so I don't think github will be an issue.
I'll post again in this thread when I've turned it into a package that you can install easily.
Regarding the parallelogram method, I'm very much in favir (ha!) of creating a package for that on-leveling method. I actually started a repository on GitHub for such a package. I never really got very far with it, so it probably looks pretty awful, but here it is: [https://github.com/PirateGrunt/OnLevel]. I may have a go at dusting it off over the long weekend.
Regarding GitHub vs. BitBucket, I use them both and find they're quite comparable, if you're using Git. I think the deeper issue is one of Mercurial vs. Git. Git is the only one I know, but discussions on the interweb suggest that they're very similar. See this discussion on SO: [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35837/what-is-the-difference-between-mercurial-and-git]
I cleaned up the existing favir code a little bit and made an R parallelogram package out of it. It's now on git at:
https://github.com/bescoto/Parallelogram
You can download the tar.gz and install it locally as a source package (e.g. install.packages("Parallelogram_0.1.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")) or use git to start messing with the code directly.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or find any problems!
Ben, you still have some references to "AonInternal" in your package. If you built it as "work for hire", then Aon may actually own the copyright, and you cannot host it on Github, both as 1) it may violate internal compliance (GuyCarp, for example, does not allow company software to be hosted in the cloud; we have a Stash instance running on internal servers behind the firewall) and 2) hosting something on Github (at least publicly) implies that the software is free and open source. If Aon owns the copyright, they have to release it.
It could be that you own the copyright as you developed this on your own time and hardware, or the company allows you to do your own research and own the results, but in that case, you're probably better off removing all references to your employer :)
Thanks, I didn't find any references to AonInternal in the package itself, but I did find one reference in a doc string in the "Make" script (fixed now). Let me know if you see anything else, and if the code works for you.
License is GPL >= 2, as it says in the DESCRIPTION and COPYING files.
There's now an Excelsi-R Parallelogram Method template so you can use the parallelogram method without leaving Excel. That and a few other templates are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/p/excelsir/code/ci/default/tree/Templates/
You'll need an Excelsi-R server and to install the Parallelogram package mentioned in the previous post. Hmm, it would be nice if we could get an Excelsi-R server running on the committee's virtual machine. I'm not sure it has enough memory though.
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