On Nov 15, 2007 10:51 AM, Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 15, 2007 9:57 AM, Simon Urbanek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > I agree that that would be desirable.
Also it would be nice if the HTML files here: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/ each had a link to the NEWS file so one could get the news on a package prior to installing it. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
