Some years ago I travelled through Libya and it's with much emotion that I follow the news. The license below is dedicated to Mohammed Nabbous and will let you run xlsReadWritePro for free (Windows, R 32-bit): library( "xlsReadWritePro" ) xls.lic( action = "register", miscData = list( User = "R.I.P. Mohammed Nabbous", Company = "Let's hope that Libya will become free", Product = "xlsReadWritePro", Date = "2011-03-19", LicenseType = "SingleUser", Count = 1, Key = "76991137f5f554a288e8cee343a24722", WhereToStore = "ProgramFolder" ) ) Info/download at http://swissr.org. Direct download links at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2602516/swissrpkg/index.html. Support (tracker) at http://dev.swissr.org/. Let's hope that Libya will become free, Hans-Peter