On 4/17/2009 8:47 AM, Christian Ritz wrote:
Hi Duncan,

on a related note: It would be nice to have a function similar to 
tools::readNEWS() for
showing package-specific CHANGES/NEWS files (if available).


That would be a waste of time. People don't use the package documentation schemes that are in place; why would they use a new one?

Duncan Murdoch



Something like:


"showNews" <- function(pkgname, filename = c("NEWS", "CHANGES"))
{
    filename <- match.arg(filename)

    file.show(paste(.libPaths(), pkgname, filename, sep = "/"),
    title = paste("Package information for", pkgname))
}


showNews("MASS")

showNews("multcomp", "CHANGES")
# requires 'multcomp' to be installed


Just an idea!

Christian

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