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? 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? Cheers, Alastair -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Is-xtable-still-being-maintained-tp3803657p3803657.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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.> 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> > Cheers, > Alastair > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Is-xtable-still-being-maintained-tp3803657p3803657.html > Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Hello, Regarding whether xtable is still maintained, yes, but at a minimal level. I am committed to ensuring that it passes the tests on the latest version of R, but I am having difficulty finding the time and interest in incorporating new features. So, I'd be very glad if someone would like to take over as the maintainer. In fact, a few weeks ago I sent the following e-mail to Kurt Hornik: Kurt, I am the original author and maintainer of the xtable package first released in 2000. Judging by the reverse dependencies and its common use with Sweave, the popularity of my xtable far exceeded my expectations. xtable does everything I need (and more!), but I still get occasional requests for new features, etc. I find that I have little time and interest in extending it much further. I am happy to continue to make sure it passes the checks with new releases of R, but I wonder if the community would be served by a new maintainer. I read the document here: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Orphaned/README Do you have any further suggestions for a smooth transition? -- David -- David B. Dahl Associate Professor Department of Statistics Texas A&M University Phone: 979-845-3141 E-mail: dahl@stat.tamu.edu Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~dahl [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
I think posting this to R-devel was a good idea. In any case, the new maintainer should be aware about the many dependencies and that she or he should be careful not to break code of others when updating. Thank you for your contributions!!! Best wishes, Uwe Ligges On 10.09.2011 19:14, David B. Dahl wrote:> Hello, > > Regarding whether xtable is still maintained, yes, but at a minimal > level. I am committed to ensuring that it passes the tests on the > latest version of R, but I am having difficulty finding the time and > interest in incorporating new features. So, I'd be very glad if someone > would like to take over as the maintainer. In fact, a few weeks ago I > sent the following e-mail to Kurt Hornik: > > Kurt, > > I am the original author and maintainer of the xtable package first > released in 2000. Judging by the reverse dependencies and its common > use with Sweave, the popularity of my xtable far exceeded my > expectations. > > xtable does everything I need (and more!), but I still get occasional > requests for new features, etc. I find that I have little time and > interest in extending it much further. I am happy to continue to make > sure it passes the checks with new releases of R, but I wonder if the > community would be served by a new maintainer. I read the document > here: > > http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Orphaned/README > > Do you have any further suggestions for a smooth transition? > > -- David > > -- > David B. Dahl > Associate Professor > Department of Statistics > Texas A&M University > > Phone: 979-845-3141 <tel:979-845-3141> > E-mail: dahl at stat.tamu.edu <mailto:dahl at stat.tamu.edu> > Website: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~dahl >
Hello, On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:14:07PM -0500, David B. Dahl wrote:> Hello, > > Regarding whether xtable is still maintained, yes, but at a minimal level. > I am committed to ensuring that it passes the tests on the latest version > of R, but I am having difficulty finding the time and interest in > incorporating new features.[...] I also missed some features. I have written my own R-code for circumvent this, but it would be better toi enhance xtable, because the functionality otherwise would split into package-code and "user-code". So it would be better to incorporate some more features. If someone would want to take over maintenance, I had some feature wishes... Ciao, Oliver