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

2020-12-17 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 16.12.20 um 16:57 schrieb Duncan Murdoch: > No, you should drop the @importFrom comment completely, and in your R > code use those fully qualified forms. > > Duncan Murdoch Sorry I did not read carefully Knut __ R-package-devel@r-project.org

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

2020-12-17 Thread Knut Krueger
  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

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

2020-12-17 Thread Spencer Graves
On 2020-12-17 12:22, Knut Krueger wrote:    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

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

2020-12-16 Thread Knut Krueger
Am 15.12.20 um 14:37 schrieb Duncan Murdoch: thank you for your answer You should not have @importFrom XLConnect createSheet writeWorksheet saveWorkbook in your ROxygen comments; that results in an unconditional import. Instead, you should use fully qualified calls each time, i.e.

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

2020-12-16 Thread 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

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

2020-12-16 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 16/12/2020 10:21 a.m., Knut Krueger wrote: Am 15.12.20 um 14:37 schrieb Duncan Murdoch: thank you for your answer You should not have @importFrom XLConnect createSheet writeWorksheet saveWorkbook in your ROxygen comments; that results in an unconditional import. Instead, you should use

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

2020-12-15 Thread 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

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

2020-12-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 15/12/2020 8:02 a.m., Knut Krueger wrote: I am using in my Package XlConnect. If the Computer is using Java < 11 all is working. But if not, the package can not be used. inside teh functions tehre is an ' @importFrom XLConnect createSheet writeWorksheet saveWorkbook but only used for