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I like Clippy! Keep it!
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Clippy should be removed. I thought it was MS-Word going haywire or something was seriously wrong with my PC. This sort of thing is just unprofessional.
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I always show it to all my colleagues that are transitioning to R and at least we have some good laughs.
But the younger generations don't really know clippy.
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Hi Kyle. You asked above why it matters. I think it matters for two reasons. First, it can cover useful information, and it follows the cursor in an odd way. This is mostly just a bit of an inconvenience. But the reason is because it is such an odd occurrence that, like others have expressed, I thought there was a bug of sorts - I thought something was wrong with my MS install or my OS. I spent well over half an hour looking for MS and OS threads about recent problems with Clippy appearing. I eventually gave up searching. But the next two times I got help on writexl I spent almost as much time - frustrated that someone hadn't fixed the MS or OS bug yet, or thinking that maybe I just needed to update some part of my MS software or my OS. It is so non-standard that it causes this kind of confusion. Now that I know it is intentional, I will just ignore it and move on. But I care about all the people who haven't found this out and spend their time thinking there is a bug somewhere, trying to figure out how to update their system. It is a bit humorous, but it is also causing a lot of people to spend time trying to figure out what the problem is on their system. Thanks for reading
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While CRAN is laxing I see Github blocked Issue #12 for being "too heated", leaving it hanging.
I will use a different package whenever I am unable to avoid Excel files.
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@arencambre
Looks like a well-documented reason
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I think it should be removed, unfortunately I am too young to know what this was looking at it and thought I had some kind of malware issue. Its a fun idea but not everyone is going to find this funny or helpful.
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Indeed the R community is full of people using MS Excel, or at least collaborating with Excel users. In several environments, it is a necessity.
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is a wonderful package and works reliably and efficiently.
Clippy was a creative and funny addition.
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But #27 is a real issue that could be solved!
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Thank you for reply! Although I fail to see its necessity, I think that maybe Clippy should come with options.
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In this regard, I think it would be good to have an option string that could disable it.
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Curious and interested to know why it matters?
If it's that big of a deal, you could just fork the repo and remove it?
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An option to disable would do just fine, I am not looking to spoil anyone's fun; I usually look for fun elsewhere.
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@drag05,
I was more interested to know why it matters for you though.
This isn't meant to sound bad, I'm curious is all (I don't mind if it exists or if it doesn't).
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The first question mark made the phrase confusing. In my opinion it should not have been there.
To answer your question, I think that features with low contribution to code effectiveness should come with options.
Thank you!
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@datatoolbox - thanks for your comments, they're both good points.
I'm obviously not the author of the package so can't remove, I've only asked the question as I've been genuinely interested (and this topic has caused some heated debate in the past).
Cheers, Kyle
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I am not trying to sound ominous but wonder what else the inserted "clippy" code may do while following the cursor. Perhaps CRAN should give a public reason for allowing it. No longer buying the "funny" bit.
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Resolved! Now where's the issue close button? 🤣
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Related Issues (20)
- Consider improving error message when a named sheet name exceeds the max character length supported by Excel HOT 3
- write_xlsx fails silently if no path argument supplied HOT 1
- Error in libxlsxwriter: 'String exceeds Excel's limit of 32,767 characters.' HOT 5
- NAs HOT 2
- Never ever remove Clippy! HOT 4
- Error in libxlsxwriter : 'Worksheet row or column index out of range.' HOT 2
- Time only POSIXct columns end up a day out HOT 3
- I Loved Clippy !
- writexl::write_xlsx incompatibility with openxlsx HOT 3
- write_xlsx gives 2 errors when writing dates with NA - version 1.4.1 HOT 4
- writexl1.4.1 bug: Empty field -> "nan(snan) HOT 5
- write_xlsx directory
- Write / overwrite a sheet in an existing excel workbook (without overwriting entire workbook)? HOT 2
- Bug: Clippy does not appear! HOT 1
- Dont try to write more than max rows
- Mention openxlsx2 as an alternative to write content
- Feature Request: Make Clippy togglable
- Failure when the storage type of `POSIXct` is `integer`
- Support NetBSD, thanks HOT 3
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