Thank you Avraham, .xlsx are zipped xml files so wb is required for it to be
readable.
Kind regards
Hernando
From: R-devel on behalf of Avraham Adler
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2025 2:52:49 PM
To: Paul McQuesten
Cc: R-devel ; Hernando Cortina
Subject: Re: [Rd]
I recently found out about Paul Murrell's excellent xdvir package that
renders LaTeX in a graphics device. I thought this would be useful and
put a wrapper around the latexGrob() function into rgl.
Testing it on Github workflows worked fine on Ubuntu and MacOS runners,
but failed on Windows.
If I recall correctly, xlsx files are XML. It is the xls/xlsb files which are
binary.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_standards/ms-xlsx/2c5dee00-eff2-4b22-92b6-0738acd4475e
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> On Aug 10, 2025, at 2:38 PM, Paul McQuesten wrote:
>
> Perhaps it would be si
Perhaps it would be simpler, and more future-proof, for R to always
download as binary.
Are there any modern consumers of text files that are bothered by '\r\n'?
Or even Macintosh '\r' line terminators?
On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM Hernando Cortina wrote:
> Yes, .docx and .pptx are part of th
Hello all, regarding download.file():
On Windows, if mode is not supplied (missing()) and url ends in one of
‘.gz’, ‘.bz2’, ‘.xz’, ‘.tgz’, ‘.zip’, ‘.jar’, ‘.rda’,
‘.rds’, ‘.RData’ or ‘.pdf’, mode = "wb" is set so that a binary
transfer is done to help unwary users.
May I sugge
On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 16:57:20 -0500
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> I trust you checked that 'perl = TRUE' applies also to these entries
> from tools:::get_exclude_patterns() ?
It does: tools:::inRbuildignore() uses perl = TRUE and I've tested the
pattern in an .Rbuildignore file with an older version
