Thanks for the detailed clarification. Perhaps the page here http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/ could include these explanations as well. I imagine I'm not the only user with these questions!
Thanks, Andrew On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, David Scott wrote: > > Andrew Yee wrote: >> >>> A naive question: what happened to the xlsReadWrite package? >>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/ >>> >>> It says that it was removed from the CRAN repository. >>> >> > Note that it was archived, not removed entirely. That is done > with packages that no longer install and we don't get an update. > > The immediate problem with xlsReadWrite was that it was Windows-only and > would not install under Windows in pre-2.9.0. > > Are there any plans for it be available again? >>> >> > The second issue was binary code in the package which is at least heavily > frowned on in the CRAN source repository (we host BRugs elsewhere for that > reason). > > There was a problem with proprietary code. >> > > Only in so far as it was binary. There are a number of CRAN packages with > non-open-source code. > > Pick up the latest version from Hans-Peter Suter's website >> >> http://treetron.googlepages.com/ >> > > Which says the problem was the binary code. > > >> >> David Scott >> _________________________________________________________________ >> David Scott Department of Statistics >> The University of Auckland, PB 92019 >> Auckland 1142, NEW ZEALAND >> Phone: +64 9 923 5055, or +64 9 373 7599 ext 85055 >> Email: d.sc...@auckland.ac.nz, Fax: +64 9 373 7018 >> >> Graduate Officer, Department of Statistics >> Director of Consulting, Department of Statistics >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
