What about treating it as a plain text file (i.e. no need for CRAN to support parsing)?
> On 23 May 2015, at 11:08 am, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 22/05/2015 8:49 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >> Are there any plans for CRAN to support NEWS files in markdown? Bit of a >> hassle to go the the package’s Github (or other like) site to read NEWS. > > Not as far as I know. There have been discussions about increasing the > support of Markdown, but so far the conclusion has been that it's too > hard to do -- the support is not stable enough on all the platforms > where R runs. > > Markdown is allowed for vignettes (because the package author processes > those), so I'd suggest putting your news into a vignette instead of a > news file. Put in a token news file that points to the vignette so > users can find it. > > Duncan Murdoch > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel