Re: [Rd] NEWS and readNEWS

2010-08-30 Thread Hadley Wickham
>>   * 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

Re: [Rd] NEWS and readNEWS

2010-08-27 Thread Kurt Hornik
> 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. Howeve

[Rd] NEWS and readNEWS

2010-08-27 Thread Hadley Wickham
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