>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: > On 22 May 2006 at 23:24, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | This would certainly be nice. > | > | Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: > | http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html > | but there is nothing comparable for CRAN. > | > | In some cases the package has a home page mentioned in the > | URL field of the DESCRIPTION file and following that can sometimes > | get vignette or other information although I agree we really need > | a standardized way to discover that a vignette exists and to access > | it without installing the package. > | > | It would also be nice to be able to access the ChangeLog or NEWS > | file online as well as from the installed package. Currently one has > | to download and unpack the source to get it in many cases and even > | then one can't even be sure that it exists. That's even worse than > | the sitution with vignettes.
> If we agreed on a (voluntary, of course) format and location for NEWS > and/or ChangeLog, then it would be easy to parse these from freshly > uploaded files and do value-added tricks like RSS feeds of changes, > new uploads, ... I still don't think there can be one format to agree upon. Imho it would be better to have package (DESCRIPTION) metadata pointing to the changelog/news db and maybe also providing an indication of its format. -k ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel