Thanks for the detailed clarification.
Perhaps the page here
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/ could
include these explanations as well.  I imagine I'm not the only user with
these questions!

Thanks,
Andrew

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, David Scott wrote:
>
>  Andrew Yee wrote:
>>
>>> A naive question:  what happened to the xlsReadWrite package?
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/
>>>
>>> It says that it was removed from the CRAN repository.
>>>
>>
> Note that it was archived, not removed entirely.  That is done
> with packages that no longer install and we don't get an update.
>
> The immediate problem with xlsReadWrite was that it was Windows-only and
> would not install under Windows in pre-2.9.0.
>
>  Are there any plans for it be available again?
>>>
>>
> The second issue was binary code in the package which is at least heavily
> frowned on in the CRAN source repository (we host BRugs elsewhere for that
> reason).
>
>  There was a problem with proprietary code.
>>
>
> Only in so far as it was binary.  There are a number of CRAN packages with
> non-open-source code.
>
>  Pick up the latest version from Hans-Peter Suter's website
>>
>> http://treetron.googlepages.com/
>>
>
> Which says the problem was the binary code.
>
>
>>
>> David Scott
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