Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/05/2015 11:31 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: I agree. It is not worth all the trouble just to save the bit of hassle to go to the package's Github site. I'm sorry, but in my opinion this is not negotiable. R needs to run on systems without Internet connections. It's not just a bit of hassle. R

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/05/2015 9:25 AM, Gábor Csárdi wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think the harder problem is display. CRAN can run pandoc, but can users who install the package from source? I would

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I wouldn't want R builds to depend on GitHub, so this sounds more interesting. I took a look at that website, and it looks problematic to me: the parser appears to be written in Javascript, and the install

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Imanuel Costigan
While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like something much simpler: being able to see” this file in the Help pane in RStudio or being about to run something like show_news(“packagename”). Duncan mentioned issues with the news() function being able to process

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/05/2015 8:51 PM, Baptiste Auguie wrote: John MacFarlane, the author of Pandoc, has been working on a project (http://commonmark.org/) to define a standard reference for Markdown*. There are already two reference implementations, one in javascript, the other in C:

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Imanuel Costigan
I’d suggest going with CommonMark if this will be the basis of broader support for Markdown as it is well defined whereas GruberMarkdown is defined by broad conventions with specifics determined by parsers. On 24 May 2015, at 12:01 pm, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/05/2015 9:15 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like something much simpler: being able to see” this file in the Help pane in RStudio That isn't really any simpler. RStudio is just displaying HTML whenever it shows you

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Imanuel Costigan
On 24 May 2015, at 12:07 pm, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/05/2015 9:15 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like something much simpler: being able to see” this file in the Help pane in RStudio That

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Kurt Hornik
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

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/05/2015 4:05 AM, Kurt Hornik 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

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 23/05/2015 13:14, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 23/05/2015 4:05 AM, Kurt Hornik 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

[Rd] MetaCran website v1.0.0-alpha

2015-05-23 Thread Gábor Csárdi
Dear All, [ I was wondering if this should have gone to the new mailing list. Maybe. ] As some of you maybe know from my earlier posts, I am building a simple search engine for R packages. Now the search engine has a proper web site, where you can also browse CRAN packages.

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 May 2015 at 08:14, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | I think the harder problem is display. CRAN can run pandoc, but can | users who install the package from source? I would expect some obscure | platforms (like Windows ;-) would not have it available. I could add it | to Rtools on Windows, but I

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think the harder problem is display. CRAN can run pandoc, but can users who install the package from source? I would expect some obscure platforms (like Windows ;-) would not have it available. [...] I

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Yihui Xie
I agree. It is not worth all the trouble just to save the bit of hassle to go to the package's Github site. In fact, the release notes on Github are more meaningful than a plain text NEWS.md or even a converted NEWS.html from Pandoc, e.g. you can include bug report numbers and attribute to users

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-23 Thread Gábor Csárdi
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: I agree. It is not worth all the trouble just to save the bit of hassle to go to the package's Github site. In fact, the release notes on Github are more meaningful than a plain text NEWS.md or even a converted NEWS.html from