>>>>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:20:36 +0000 (GMT), >>>>> Prof Brian Ripley (PBR) wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Simon Urbanek wrote: >> >> On Nov 15, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >>> On 11/15/2007 9:57 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>>> On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >>>>> inst/NEWS would have the advantage of consistency with R itself >>>>> which also has a NEWS file. >>>>> >>>> I vote for NEWS for reasons above plus because that's what I use in >>>> my packages already ;). >>>> IMHO it should be installed automatically if present, i.e. it >>>> shouldn't be necessary to have it in inst/NEWS, just plain NEWS >>>> should suffice. >>> >>> And you're volunteering to make that change? >>> >> >> Yup, in R-devel now (43464). However, there are other candidate files >> as well and we don't do anything with the NEWS file just yet ... any >> further ideas? > We've recommended inst/NEWS for some time (some people are late to this > party), and tens of packages have it. However, a further tens of packages > have a top-level NEWS, and I would assume that (at least some of) the > authors were deliberately not installing it and so will now need to rename > it. > I think the writeup needs to make clear what happens if you have both NEWS > and inst/NEWS (some packages do). As most having both are by me I also checked the rest: In all cases on CRAN they are identical copies. I have a soft link in all my packages from inst/NEWS to top level (such that it gets installed, but it is also easily found in the sources). If we install the top-level NEWS file I would remove the link (but as Brian said, we've been there before). Best, Fritz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel