On 9/10/2011 6:06 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
On 10.09.2011 13:26, Alastair wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if anyone knows if the xtable package is still actively being
maintained? The last update to the CRAN was about 2 years ago.
Earlier in
the year I found I wanted to use the short caption option of LaTeX
tables to
display an abridged title in my table of contents. It was a relatively
simple change to get xtable to support this. I bundled up my changes and
sent the maintainer David B. Dahl an email and I got absolutely no
response?
Try to "ping" - at least I do so in this case. No response would be
unfortunate, of course.
David B. Dahl still has a web site as an Associate Professor at
Texas A&M U.
What's the etiquette for this kind of situation? I think he's done a
sterling job maintaining a really useful package; I wanted to help and
contribute to the community but if he's not doing it anymore how can
anyone
get their improvements / bug fixes into circulation?
xtable's DESCRIPTION file says
License: GPL (>= 2)
so go ahead in case you do not get a response.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
xtable has a long list of reverse depends, imports, suggests and
enhances, so many people clearly think it's useful.
My preference is to encourage the maintainer(s) to migrate the
project to R-Forge where others can help maintain it and add
enhancements (that shouldn't break current applications) that people
feel are generally useful. (Not everyone responds positively to this
kind of suggestion, but some do.)
R-Forge also lists tabulaR, which "is a comprehensive package for
presenting quality tabular output within the R Environment. Differing
from xtable and Hmisc, it manipulates, formats and presents tabular data
to any R device stream, which can then be used by any structured
format." So far, however, I was unable to find evidence that the the
tabulaR team has done anything for with R-Forge beyond successfully
getting a shell created for the project.
Good luck!
Spencer
Cheers,
Alastair
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