On 3/13/07, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/13/2007 3:14 PM, hadley wickham wrote: > > On 3/13/07, Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jenny Hodgson wrote: > >>> I was using Version 2.3.1 for Windows (binary download version). Guess I > >>> should be using the latest version, (but the reason is I'm writing up my > >>> PhD and I thought my results would be more 'repeatable' if I didn't keep > >>> changing my version of the software, I didn't really think there would > >>> be any glitches as big as this). Sorry if this is a waste of your time. > >>> And thanks very much for replying so quickly. > >>> > >>> Jenny > >>> > >>> > >> Always a good idea to check the NEWS file: > >> > >> o add1.lm() had been broken by other changes for weighted fits. > > > > Yes, but a little impractical. Has any one ever considered a standard > > for the news file so changes could be extracted and included in online > > documentation somewhere? > > It's in a structured format, and is online. The readNEWS() function can > read it. It would be nice if someone would contribute a more friendly > reader... > > Try > > readNEWS(url("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-2.5.0dev"), > chop="keepAll")[[c("2.5","2.5.0","BUG FIXES")]] > > for the unfriendly but informative version.
Oh, that's neat. One thing that would be very useful would be to figure out what (if any) functions an news item refers to. A grep against all function names in base packages wouldn't be too hard to do. I'll think about it, and how to render it nicely in a webpage. Hadley ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.