Fwd: fImport yahooKeystats

[Martin Maechler]

Dear James,
thanks a lot for your suggestion.

Today, I've met with other Rmetrics core team members, but forgot to
address this issue.
I'm forwarding it hereby to the others.

My personal opinion: I think it's a very good idea to work with (and
hence 'Depend' on) the well maintained and known to be good quality
package  'XML'.
OTOH, I have not been involved in fImports, so
I really do leave this to those among us who are mainly involved with
'fImports'.

Martin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: J Toll <jctoll at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 03:57
Subject: fImport yahooKeystats
To: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch


Hi Martin,

I was reading your response on the r-help mailing list "Re: [R]
fUtilities removed --> use fBasics"

Specifically you mentioned, "One excuse has been the lack of resources
and health on the side
of Rmetrics.

Disclaimer: I am one of Rmetrics-core at r-project.org, as having
been an active co-maintainer of some parts of the Rmetrics collection,
but I have not been part of the "management" nor the foundation."

A while back I noticed that the yahooKeystats function from the
fImport package was broken. Since I wanted to use the function, I went
ahead and fixed it for my use.  Later, I went back and wrote a new
version of the yahooKeystats function utilizing the XML package.  I
would be happy to provide that code as a replacement for yahooKeystats
if Rmetrics would be interested.

Best regards,

James