>>>>> Hadley Wickham writes: > readNEWS() states: > Read R's ‘NEWS’ file or a similarly formatted one. This is an > experimental feature, new in R 2.4.0 and may change in several > ways
> and news() also indicates that this tool is supposed to work with > non-R news files. However, I've not been able to get readNEWS to read > a package news file, even when following the format indicated in > news(). Looking at the code for readNEWS() it seems there are couple > of places where it assumes it's working with the main R NEWS file: > * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS" > * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION " > Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect? readNEWS() is really for such 3-level files, but then R itself will move to an 2-level Rd format in R 2.12.0. Use news() to read package news files. -k > Hadley > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel