>> * 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.
Ah, ok, this is rather unclear from the current documentation. So if I want to read a NEWS file off disk to check that I have the right format (without installing the package first), I should use tools:::.build_news_db ? 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