On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:19 PM, oliver <oli...@first.in-berlin.de> 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).
That has since become the CRAN version of zoo: > library(zoo) > rollapply(1:10, 3, sum) [1] 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 > packageVersion("zoo") [1] ‘1.7.4’ -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel