[R-pkg-devel] Used package not updated - needs java < V 11

[Knut Krueger]

Thank you for your answer,

I tested  WriteXLS and openxlsx ... but it is perl based and most of the 
Windows user do not have perl installed.
Therefore I would change the missing XlConnect with missing Perl 
library. And that is more complicated, because the user has to add 
something on operating system level. No chance f.e on University cip 
pools and users unfamiliar with operating systems at all

-> gdata - I will check how to change it

Thank you Knut

Am 15.12.20 um 15:43 schrieb Spencer Graves:
>       I suggest NOT using "XLConnect".  "sos" now uses WriteXLS.  
> "Ecfun" now uses "openxlsx".
> 
> 
>        Also, I received an email from CRAN maintainers months ago saying 
> that "gdata" was being obsoleted.  It's still on CRAN with a date of 
> 2017-06-06 and a huge number of reverse dependencies.  The CRAN 
> maintainers may have gotten someone to agree to take it over who just 
> hasn't finished fixing whatever deficiencies it has.  However, you might 
> see how difficult it might be to do without "gdata" as well.
> 
> 
>        Spencer Graves
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