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: 1.8.0 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 1.7.1: Added a new argument "Encoding" to WriteXLS(). The argument enables the proper decoding of data in the package's WriteXLS.pl Perl script for either "UTF-8" (default) or "latin1" character sets. Previously only UTF-8 was supported. This is modeled after the Encoding() R function. Thanks to Robert Burns for reporting the problem and testing the fix. _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages