new version 0.5.6 of the package available for testing

[Adrian Dragulescu]

Closing a few bugs and requests that trickled in over the past few months.

Please grab this version from https://code.google.com/p/rexcel/ if you want to test it before I upload it on CRAN.

Changes in version 0.5.6 (released 2014-04-01)

 o Functions read.xlsx, read.xlsx2 crashed when trying to read empty

 sheets.  Now they return NULL if the sheet exists but it's empty.

 See Issue 28.

 o Fixed a corner case in addDataFrame when the data.frame has zero

 columns. 

 o Allow colors to be specified as hex strings (e.g. "#FF0000" for

 red).  Previously, only R colors were supported.  This change applies

 only to the xlsx format.  Old style binary xls format still only

 supports a limited number of colors (POI limitation).  

 o Change the .onLoad functions from both xlsxjars and xlsx package to 

 allow for other users to initialize the Java VM themselves (useful

 for other packages that depend on xlsxjars).  This is not a user

 visible change. See Issue 36. 

 

[korneliu...@gmail.com]

Thank you very much, I tested it and it looks great to me!