Re: [Rd] should the top of doc/NEWS.3 mention doc/NEWS.Rd ?

2025-04-13 Thread peter dalgaard
Also, the files do exist in the build directory after R has been built. I suppose that we could copy them into the sources for the distribution, but generically, it is bad luck for tarballs to include both sources and build results because it confuses the Makefile dependencies (& we have plenty

Re: [Rd] should the top of doc/NEWS.3 mention doc/NEWS.Rd ?

2025-04-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 2025-04-13 11:07 a.m., Benjamin Tyner wrote: Greetings, As of r80088, at the top of doc/NEWS.3 file it says: LATER NEWS:   • News for R 4.x.y can be found in HTML format at doc/html/NEWS.html,     and in text format in file NEWS in the doc directory. However as far as I can tell, neithe

[Rd] should the top of doc/NEWS.3 mention doc/NEWS.Rd ?

2025-04-13 Thread Benjamin Tyner
Greetings, As of r80088, at the top of doc/NEWS.3 file it says: LATER NEWS:   • News for R 4.x.y can be found in HTML format at doc/html/NEWS.html,     and in text format in file NEWS in the doc directory. However as far as I can tell, neither NEWS nor NEWS.html exists in the R source. Should