Re: [Rd] Why my messages are filtered from the list?
On May 29, 2015, at 1:05 AM, Ivan Popivanov wrote: > Now I am getting confused. I see two postings from me in the archives: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-May/071205.html > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2015-April/070982.html > > Were these actually published to the list? Yes, I remember seeing those, because it did spark my interest. I'm swamped with other stuff, but the topic is on my (long) stack to look at. Cheers, Simon > If so - big apology. > > Regards, > Ivan > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:43 AM David Winsemius > wrote: > >> >> On May 28, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Ivan Popivanov wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Over the last two months I have sent two messages (same topic) to the >> list. >>> None of them showed on the list. For the first, I got a message that it >> is >>> in some queue and waiting for an administrator to look at it. Is the >> queue >>> THAT long?! >> >> The moderators don't know all the spam rules but we are fairly sure that >> the Spam filter increases the probability of diverting to the queue >> especially for Nabble postings , but we suspect also for certain high-risk >> domains, and using HTML mail. >> >> The queue's are fairly short and if your posting doesn't get to the list >> within 12 hours you can be reasonably sure it was intercepted and will >> never appear. Some postings from Nabble do not even reach teh moderator >> queue. If it had a blank Subject or a Subject that was all question marks >> the moderator might have simply discarded it without even looking at it. I >> do not see any posting from your address in the Archives for May or April. >> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> __ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> David Winsemius >> Alameda, CA, USA >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > __ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN
So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a Sent from my iPad On 23 May 2015, at 6:05 pm, Kurt Hornik 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 > >> __ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN
> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan 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 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 >> >>> __ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > __ > R-devel@r-project.org 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: pd@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
