So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a
Sent from my iPad On 23 May 2015, at 6:05 pm, Kurt Hornik <kurt.hor...@wu.ac.at> wrote: >>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes: > >>> 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. > > There are actually two issues here. > > For CRAN, we could in principle take inst/NEWS.md files, convert these > to HTML using pandoc, and use the HTML for the package web page. (Would > need the CRAN incoming checks to be taught about inst/NEWS.md.) > > However, we cannot use such files for utils::news() because we do not > (yet?) know how to reliably parse such files and extract the news items > (and hence cannot really compute on the news information). > > Btw, currently only one package on CRAN has inst/NEWS.md (another one > has NEWS.md at top level). > > Best > -k > >> 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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
