>> * 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
> 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
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