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. 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel