> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? >
....in the development version. Not true of released versions. -pd > https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a > > Sent from my iPad > > On 23 May 2015, at 6:05 pm, Kurt Hornik <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes: >> >>>> On 22/05/2015 8:49 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >>>> Are there any plans for CRAN to support NEWS files in markdown? Bit of a >>>> hassle to go the the package’s Github (or other like) site to read NEWS. >> >>> Not as far as I know. There have been discussions about increasing the >>> support of Markdown, but so far the conclusion has been that it's too >>> hard to do -- the support is not stable enough on all the platforms >>> where R runs. >> >> There are actually two issues here. >> >> For CRAN, we could in principle take inst/NEWS.md files, convert these >> to HTML using pandoc, and use the HTML for the package web page. (Would >> need the CRAN incoming checks to be taught about inst/NEWS.md.) >> >> However, we cannot use such files for utils::news() because we do not >> (yet?) know how to reliably parse such files and extract the news items >> (and hence cannot really compute on the news information). >> >> Btw, currently only one package on CRAN has inst/NEWS.md (another one >> has NEWS.md at top level). >> >> Best >> -k >> >>> Markdown is allowed for vignettes (because the package author processes >>> those), so I'd suggest putting your news into a vignette instead of a >>> news file. Put in a token news file that points to the vignette so >>> users can find it. >> >>> Duncan Murdoch >> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
