The R package rxylib provides and access to the C++ library xylib by wrapping the library using Rcpp. For supported data formats see https://github.com/wojdyr/xylib.

Installation

i. Requirements

Windows (32/64bit): Rtools (provided by CRAN)
macOS: Xcode
Linux: gcc often comes pre-installed in most distributions.

ii. Install the package (development version)

To install the stable version from CRAN, simply run the following from an R console:

install.packages("rxylib")

To install the latest development builds directly from GitHub, run

if(!require("devtools"))
  install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("R-Lum/rxylib@master")

To install a developer build other than 'master', replace the term 'master' in the code line by the name of the wanted developer build.

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Licenses

Please note that the package uses two different licences

Package `rxylib` license

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Library `xylib` license

The library itself is NOT part of the GPL-3 license conditions of the package and available under LGPL license conditions only cf. https://github.com/wojdyr/xylib

Funding

Between 2017-2019, the work of Sebastian Kreutzer as maintainer of the package was supported by LabEx LaScArBx (ANR - n. ANR-10-LABX-52).
From 01/2020-04/2022, Sebastian Kreutzer received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 844457 (project: CREDit).
Since 03/2023, Sebastian Kreutzer as maintainer of the package receives funding from the DFG Heisenberg programme No 505822867.

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