On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>
> I personally put NEWS, WISHLIST and THANKS files in the 'inst'
> directory of all my source packages. This has the effect of copying them to
> the
> top level of the built version so that they are accessible from R via:
>
I'm not sure that WISHLIST and THANKS need to be available to people who
haven't installed the package. NEWS, on the other hand, really does.
One option (if it doesn't turn out to be too much work for the CRAN
maintainers) would be to have an optional Changelog field in the
DESCRIPTION file giving the relative path to the file. This would mean
that maintainers would not all have to switch to the same format.
eg for foreign
Changelog: ChangeLog
and for survey
Changelog: inst/NEWS
This might be enough to make it easy for CRAN to display these when the
maintainer provides them.
-thomas
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