Release 1.11.2 of the gregmisc() package of functions is now available on CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/gregmisc.html for both Unix and Windows systems. The most notable enhancement provided by this release is: - read.xls(), a function to read Microsoft Excel files by translating them to csv files via the xls2csv.pl script has been added. I've also provided Unix and MS-Windows scripts in <R_LIBRARY_DIR>/gregmisc/bin which allow you to call xls2csv directly. The code uses perl libraries which are included in the package, so perl must be in the execution path. Other enhancements include: - Improvements to CrossTable() by Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com> - Improvements to ooplot() by Lodewijk Bonebakker <bonebakker at comcast.net> - plotCI() and plotmeans() now have improved argument handling. - The running() function now has an additional parameter `simplify' which controls whether the returned values are simplified into a vector/matrix or left as a list. - A makefile that will download and attempt to install all available packages from CRAN and Bioconductor is now provided in $PACKAGE$/gregmisc/tools/ - space() can now space points along the 'y' dimension. - Fix an error in the permutations code for repeats.allow=T and r>2. Both the bug report and fix are from Elizabeth Purdom <epurdom at stanford.edu>. - Various fixes for compatibility with R 1.9.X. See the NEWS and ChangeLog files in the .tar.gz file for additional details. -Greg Gregory R. Warnes Manager, Non-Clinical Statistics Pfizer Global Research and Development LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this messag...{{dropped}} _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at stat.math.ethz.ch https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages