[R] [R-pkgs] New CRAN Package: BI - Generate James (1996) and Bang (2004) Blinding Indexes

Hi All, Version 1.0.0 of the new BI package is now on CRAN. The BI package will generate the James Blinding Index, as described in James et al (1996, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8841652/) and the Bang Blinding Index, as described in Bang et al (2004, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/150200

[R] [R-pkgs] WriteXLS Version 6.1.0 - Bug Fix Release

Hi All, WriteXLS version 6.1.0 has been released and is in the process of becoming available via CRAN. This is a bug fix release, as in version 6.0.0, there were occasions where certain integer values in source data frames, containing specific patterns of trailing and embedded zeros, were writ

[R] [R-pkgs] WriteXLS Version 6.0.0 Released

Hi All, WriteXLS version 6.0.0 has been released and is available on CRAN. The key changes are: 1. More robust handling of embedded newline ('\n') and carriage return ('\r') characters, double quotes, and two character sequences of a backslash character ('\') followed by another character, wit

[R] [R-pkgs] WriteXLS version 5.0.0 now available

Hi all, I am pleased to announce that WriteXLS version 5.0.0 is now available on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/WriteXLS/index.html This supersedes version 4.1.0 and should appear on your local CRAN mirror in due course, if not there already. WriteXLS, first released in 2009,