Hi all,
Version 3.0.0 of the WriteXLS package has been released to CRAN. Source tarballs
are being mirrored and binaries for Windows and OSX should appear in due course.
Main CRAN URL: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/WriteXLS/index.html
WriterXLS is a cross-platform Perl based R function to create Excel 2003 (XLS)
and Excel 2007 (XLSX) 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.
The key changes in the new version are:
1. The ability to create Excel 2007 (XLSX) files in addition to Excel 2003 (XLS)
files.
2. The Perl package Excel::Writer::XLSX is now included to facilitate the
creation of the Excel 2007 files.
3. The Perl package Text::CSV_XS has been replaced with Text::CSV_PP, which is a
Pure Perl implementation of the former package and is included in the WriteXLS
package. This should make it easier for users to install WriteXLS since a
pre-compiled or locally compiled binary for Text::CSV_XS is no longer required.
4. Data frame columns that have a 'comment' attribute, created using the
comment() function, will have the text content of the 'comment'
attribute written to a cell comment in the first row of the worksheet containing
that data frame. This will work for both Excel 2003 (XLS) and Excel 2007 (XLSX)
files. These comments can serve as column labels, providing descriptive
information on the content of the column in the Excel worksheet.
The package is openly maintained under GPL-2 at:
https://github.com/marcschwartz/WriteXLS
If anyone identifies any issues, please let me know.
Thanks and regards,
Marc Schwartz
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