On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 11/15/2007 9:57 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: >>> On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >>>> inst/NEWS would have the advantage of consistency with R itself >>>> which also has a NEWS file. >>>> >>> I vote for NEWS for reasons above plus because that's what I use in >>> my packages already ;). >>> IMHO it should be installed automatically if present, i.e. it >>> shouldn't be necessary to have it in inst/NEWS, just plain NEWS >>> should suffice. >> >> And you're volunteering to make that change? >> > > Yup, in R-devel now (43464). However, there are other candidate files > as well and we don't do anything with the NEWS file just yet ... any > further ideas?
We've recommended inst/NEWS for some time (some people are late to this party), and tens of packages have it. However, a further tens of packages have a top-level NEWS, and I would assume that (at least some of) the authors were deliberately not installing it and so will now need to rename it. I think the writeup needs to make clear what happens if you have both NEWS and inst/NEWS (some packages do). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
