[R] Status of "data.table" package

[Uwe Ligges]

Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
>> It was announced on the R-devel list:
>> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/devel/06/04/4923.html
>>
>> I don't see it on CRAN, either, nor could I find mention of it in the R News
>> you cited.
> 
> In the archive:
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/D/data.table_1.0.tar.gz

AFAIR, the author (I am CCing) decided to remove it from CRAN's main 
repository because R has improved issues the package tries to address. 
Hence the package is no longer that beneficial in newer versions of R.

Uwe Ligges


> Roger
> 
>> Andy
>>
>> From: Eric Rexstad
>>> List:
>>>
>>> This package was described in R News of May 2006.  However, I 
>>> cannot find it on CRAN mirrors, and use of RSiteSearch is 
>>> unsatisfying.  I am likewise unable to find an email address 
>>> for the maintainer of the package.  Thank you in advance for 
>>> assistance.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Eric Rexstad
>>> Research Unit for Wildlife Population Assessment Centre for 
>>> Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling 
>>> University of St. Andrews St. Andrews Scotland KY16 9LZ
>>> +44 (0)1334 461833
>>>
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