[Tikzdevice-bugs] tikzDevice archived and current status of development

[Alastair Andrew]

Hi Charlie,

I hope your move and job hunting has been a success. Do you have any firmer 
idea of when you might have time for another release of tikzDevice? 

On Tuesday, 17 July 2012 04:53:15 UTC+1, Charlie Sharpsteen wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:04 PM, <xlco... at mirai-solutions.ch<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > Dear tikzDevice maintainers, 
> > 
> > first of all, thank you for this wonderful package. We're the 
> maintainers 
> > of the XLConnect package and were recently contacted (amongst others) by 
> > the CRAN maintainers to remove references to the tikzDevice package 
> since 
> > it has been removed from CRAN. We then found the current 0.6.3 release 
> on 
> > r-forge which seems to fix some of the issues the CRAN guys were talking 
> > about - only missing thing may be the .Rinstignore file as suggested by 
> R 
> > 2.15.1 R CMD check procedure. Are there any plans from your side to 
> > release a new version of the tikzDevice pacakge to CRAN in the near 
> > future? 
> > 
> > Thanks and Best regards, 
> > Martin 
> > 
>
> Hi, 
>
> The development version of tiikzDevice does contain fixes for the issues 
> that caused the package to be archived. Unfortunately, the development 
> version also contains a lot of material that has not been properly tested 
> and is therefore unsuitable for a CRAN release. 
>
> I just got back from an extended vacation and am currently in the process 
> of moving to Portland so I don't really have the free time to prep a CRAN 
> release at the moment---house and job hunting has to come first. I tried 
> to 
> explain this to the CRAN maintainers but they decided to archive the 
> package anyway. 
>
> I should have a new release ready around the beginning of August. Many 
> apologies to everyone who has been affected by this turn of events. 
>
> -Charlie 
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