>>>>> peter dalgaard writes: >> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan <i.costi...@me.com> wrote: >> >> So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? >>
> ....in the development version. Not true of released versions. Now also in r-patched. -k > -pd >> 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 > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________ > 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
