On 9/10/2011 10:19 AM, oliver wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 07:40:24AM -0700, Spencer Graves wrote:
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
[...]
AFAIK xtable was also there available, but looking it up via search function
it seems not to be the case.
So I may have mixed up it with a different package... hmhhh ah, I think it
was zoo-package. Hmhh, yes, I think zoo... and the r-forge zoo-package allows
rollapply() also on any data type, wheras the older r-cran zoo only allowed
rollapply() to zoo-dataytpe (at lkeast at that time when I compared both
packages).
If Rforge is the devel-hosting platform, but R-CRAN is the platform where
packages
should be downloadet from (at least it seems to be the default for install),
then from time to time packages should be copied to R-CRAN, so that there the
progress one day will pop up - maybe with a delay, and only hosting well tested
packages.
Exactly: R-Forge -> (log in and select a package for which you are a
maintainer or admin) -> "R packages" -> "[Submit this package to CRAN]"
-> (answer the questions) -> submit --- but only when you feel the new
version is ready.
Spencer
Something like "testing" and "stable" in Debian's distribution concept
for the R-packages.
It seems the R-Forge issue is not so well known.
First time when I heard of R-forge is some months ago,
and it was via #R channel on freenode, which I also can
recommend for fast communication.
Ciao,
Oliver
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