Dieter, One way to check if a package is active, is by looking on r-forge. If you are referring to data.table you would have found it is actually very active at the moment and is far from abandoned.
What you may be referring to is a warning, not an error, with v1.2 on R2.10+. That was fixed many moons ago. The r-forge version is where its at. Rather than commenting in public about a warning on a package, and making a conclusion about its abandonment, and doing this without copying the maintainer, perhaps you could have contacted the maintainer to let him know you had found a problem. That would have been a more community spirited action to take. Doing that at the time you found out would have been helpful too rather than saving it up for now. Or you can always check the svn logs yourself, as the r-forge guys even made that trivial to do. All, Can we please now stop this thread ? The crantastic people worked hard to provide a better solution. If the community refuses to use crantastic, thats up to the community, but to start now filling up r-help with votes on packages when so much effort was put in to a much much better solution ages ago? Its as quick to put your votes into crantastic as it is to write to r-help. What your problem, folks, with crantastic? The second reply mentioned crantastic but you all chose to ignore it, it seems. If you want to vote, use crantastic. If you don't want to vote, don't vote. But using r-help to vote ?! The better solution is right there: http://crantastic.org/ Matthew "Dieter Menne" <dieter.me...@menne-biomed.de> wrote in message news:1267626882999-1576618.p...@n4.nabble.com... > > > Rob Forler wrote: >> >> And data.table because it does aggregation about 50x times faster than >> plyr >> (which I used to use a lot). >> >> > > This is correct, from the error message its spits out one has to conclude > that is was abandoned at R-version 2.4.x > > Dieter > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n4.nabble.com/Three-most-useful-R-package-tp1575671p1576618.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.