On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> How about if there were just a standard location and name such as inst/NEWS,
> inst/WISHLIST, inst/THANKS (which has the advantage that they are
> automatically
> made available in the built package under the current way packages are
> built)
The problem is that there *isn't* a standard location. As Robert Gentleman
has pointed out, if you only maintain two or three packages it isn't too
bad to change them to some new layout, but if you are the bioconductor
project it gets painful quite quickly.
Also, there are good reasons for having NEWS in the top level directory.
Nearly everything that isn't an R package does this, because it's a useful
standard.
-thomas
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