Is openxlsx still under development?

awalker89 / openxlsx

R package for .xlsx file reading and writing.

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Is openxlsx still under development? #484

Open laubwolf opened 5 years ago

laubwolf commented 5 years ago

Is this still under active development? How can I contact the author? Last commit is about a year old and several issues are open. I can only install packages from CRAN at work, so I kind of depend on this official version of openxlsx. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks.

abalter commented 5 years ago

Switch to using a local instance of Conda.

laubwolf commented 5 years ago

This is not possible here, unfortunately. And it's not really a solution. Openxlsx is widely used. If @awalker89 is not maintaining the package anymore, someone should take over, I think. I could do this and try to get CRAN to switch to a fork. But I would appreciate to not being alone on this one. Any volunteers?

joranE commented 5 years ago

@laubwolf The CRAN page seems to say that the package is orphaned. I wish I could help with development, but my C++ knowledge is essentially nonexistent so I wouldn't be much use except with the R side of things.

abalter commented 5 years ago

This is the downside to the R maintenance, which, unlike Python, curates and maintains only very basic functions. Here we have a widely-used and obvious functionality---interacting with Excel files---and it is orphaned.

kainhofer commented 5 years ago

@laubwolf I would support someone taking the plugin over. I have a couple of PRs open (mainly the cloneWorksheet function and two minor polishing patches), so I'd like to see some activity for this plugin again.

As far as contacting @awalker89 (Alex Walker), I found the package PDF on CRAN: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/openxlsx/openxlsx.pdf, which lists a gmail-Address for Alex Walker. If that doesn't help, linked in appears to indicate that he now works at CoreLogic Australia. So maybe some generic firstname.lastname@company.au address might work.

aadler commented 5 years ago

I think CRAN is pretty open about people taking up orphans, and it should be trivial to fork this repo. I don't have the C++ skills for this, though :(

ycphs commented 5 years ago

I would like to contribute as well. Maybe we can mange the development and support of the package together?

GegznaV commented 5 years ago

Any news on this issue?

aadler commented 5 years ago

Not that I can see. There are 84 forks of this project; perhaps one of the 84 would be willing/able to take over the development?

ycphs commented 5 years ago

I created a new fork to continue the development. I am happy to receive new pull reuests and support.

GeraldCNelson commented 5 years ago

I would be grateful if you took on continuing development! Can you give some basic instructions on how to pull a forked version? Thanks!

ycphs commented 5 years ago

I would be grateful if you took on continuing development! Can you give some basic instructions on how to pull a forked version? Thanks!

Just use the usual git commands (clone/pull/..) to use the different repository.

GeraldCNelson commented 5 years ago

For the less experienced git user, I think the following should get you the version being modified by ycphs

install.packages(c("Rcpp", "devtools"), dependencies = TRUE)
require(devtools)
install_github("ycphs/openxlsx")

ycphs commented 5 years ago

New release

I submitted a new version of the package to CRAN.

The new repository for the maintenance of the package is new repo.

I am looking forward to your contributions.