Re: [Rd] NEWS and readNEWS
>> * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS" >> * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION " > >> Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect? > > readNEWS() is really for such 3-level files, but then R itself will move > to an 2-level Rd format in R 2.12.0. > > Use news() to read package news files. Ah, ok, this is rather unclear from the current documentation. So if I want to read a NEWS file off disk to check that I have the right format (without installing the package first), I should use tools:::.build_news_db ? Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] NEWS and readNEWS
> Hadley Wickham writes: > readNEWS() states: > Read R's ‘NEWS’ file or a similarly formatted one. This is an > experimental feature, new in R 2.4.0 and may change in several > ways > and news() also indicates that this tool is supposed to work with > non-R news files. However, I've not been able to get readNEWS to read > a package news file, even when following the format indicated in > news(). Looking at the code for readNEWS() it seems there are couple > of places where it assumes it's working with the main R NEWS file: > * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS" > * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION " > Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect? readNEWS() is really for such 3-level files, but then R itself will move to an 2-level Rd format in R 2.12.0. Use news() to read package news files. -k > Hadley > -- > Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair > Department of Statistics / Rice University > http://had.co.nz/ > __ > 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
[Rd] NEWS and readNEWS
readNEWS() states: Read R's ‘NEWS’ file or a similarly formatted one. This is an experimental feature, new in R 2.4.0 and may change in several ways and news() also indicates that this tool is supposed to work with non-R news files. However, I've not been able to get readNEWS to read a package news file, even when following the format indicated in news(). Looking at the code for readNEWS() it seems there are couple of places where it assumes it's working with the main R NEWS file: * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS" * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION " Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect? Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
