The updated package has been submitted to CRAN and will propagate to mirrors over the next day or so. It is maintained on R-Forge at http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/writexls , where downloads are available as well. Package: WriteXLS Version: 1.7.1 Description: Cross-platform perl based R function to create Excel (XLS) 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. Author(s): Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> Maintainer: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> License: GPL (>=2) Changes since version 1.6.0: 1. Added \'verbose\' argument to testPerl so that it can be used in an if() manner without console output 2. Added \'SheetNames\' argument to WriteXLS to enable user specified worksheet names 3. Added various checks to code for unique worksheet names, worksheet names <= 31 chars, length(SheetNames) == length(x) 4. Added check for invalid worksheet names for chars []:*?/\\ 5. Added argument \'--SN\' to WriteXLS.pl to support SheetNames from WriteXLS.R 6. Modified WriteXLS.pl to handle SheetNames.txt file and related activity 7. Substantive changes to WriteXLS.Rd to describe new function arguments and additional validity checks. 8. Fixed typos in e-mail in both help files. 9. New \'envir\' argument to WriteXLS to enable WriteXLS to be wrapped in other functions and locate the data frames to be written. 10. Reduced SystemRequirements in DESCRIPTION file to only those Perl modules not included in the package. 11. Added TRUE/FALSE invisible return values to WriteXLS to enable the function to be tested for success or failure. Note that error messages will still be output. Regards to all, Marc Schwartz _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages