Hi all,

Version 3.0.0 of the WriteXLS package has been released to CRAN. Source 
tarballs are being mirrored and binaries for Windows and OSX should appear in 
due course.

Main CRAN URL: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/WriteXLS/index.html

WriterXLS is a cross-platform Perl based R function to create Excel 2003 (XLS) 
and Excel 2007 (XLSX) files from one or more data frames. Each data frame will 
be written to a separate named worksheet in the Excel spreadsheet. The 
worksheet name will be the name of the data frame it contains or can be 
specified by the user.

The key changes in the new version are:

1. The ability to create Excel 2007 (XLSX) files in addition to Excel 2003 
(XLS) files.

2. The Perl package Excel::Writer::XLSX is now included to facilitate the 
creation of the Excel 2007 files.

3. The Perl package Text::CSV_XS has been replaced with Text::CSV_PP, which is 
a Pure Perl implementation of the former package and is included in the 
WriteXLS package. This should make it easier for users to install WriteXLS 
since a pre-compiled or locally compiled binary for Text::CSV_XS is no longer 
required.

4. Data frame columns that have a 'comment' attribute, created using the 
comment() function, will have the text content of the 'comment' attribute 
written to a cell comment in the first row of the worksheet containing that 
data frame. This will work for both Excel 2003 (XLS) and Excel 2007 (XLSX) 
files. These comments can serve as column labels, providing descriptive 
information on the content of the column in the Excel worksheet.


The package is openly maintained under GPL-2 at:

  https://github.com/marcschwartz/WriteXLS


If anyone identifies any issues, please let me know.

Thanks and regards,

Marc Schwartz

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