2009/3/2 Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>: > The CRAN Windows ones. It is a windows-only package, see > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html > (incidentally to you: it seems no longer maintained and does not build under > R-devel on Windows, see > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/check/xlsReadWrite-check.log > The maintainer has not responded to requests for a fix.)
I didn't get a request (my email was '<gcha...@gmail> instead of <gcha...@gmail.com>). I'll look into the issue this weekend. However there might be a problem because the package contains binary code and maybe xlsReadWrite has to be put on a place other than CRAN (I'll ask Rcore about this in a separate email). In any case I absolutely intend to maintain the package also in future. AFAIK it works well (apart from a small rowname bug which surfaced recently ;-) and provides a pragmatic alternative to the OSS R packages gdata and RODBC) 2009/3/3 Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@comcast.net>: > You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the > package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows > specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library which is > available for Windows only) to natively read and write Excel files. It's correct that xlsReadWrite is currently only available for Windows. However it doesn't use the MS Office API but works directly with the file format (BIFF8), i.e. Excel is _not_ required. True is, that it uses a third party library (Flexcel, TMSSoftware). This library supports FreePascal which means that theoretically xlsReadWrite could be compiled for Linux/Mac (tried once, didn't succeed, will try again later (now also using Macs and Debian/Ubuntu)). -- Regards, Hans-Peter ______________________________________________ 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.
