Hi Kurt, On 1 June 2015 at 14:02, Kurt Hornik wrote: | >>>>> 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.
Nice. Now, is there a way for package authors to preview how a .md would be rendered? I wrote mine with GitHub in mind, and they render fine. I looked a recently-uploaded README.md of mine on CRAN, and it got some of the pandoc-y parts wrong --- and looks unprofessional. I would like to avoid that. How can I? Dirk | -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 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel