>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes: > On 02/06/2015 11:05 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> 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?
> In the short term, you should probably try to run pandoc with the same > version and options as CRAN. Kurt, can you say what these are? If you > (Dirk) know pandoc options that emulate Github, it would probably make > sense for CRAN to use those. Sure. We currently have pandoc 1.12.4.2 Compiled with texmath 0.6.6.1, highlighting-kate 0.5.8.5. which we use with --email-obfuscation=references. Best -k > In the longer term, the plan is to include our own parser and renderer. > At that point this would be easy. > Duncan Murdoch >> >> 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 >> > ______________________________________________ > 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