[Rd] Disappearance of the file "NEWS"

2010-08-01 Thread Laurent
Dear R-developpers, The file NEWS disappeared in r5243, and the authoritative source of information for what has changed in R is in ./doc/NEWS.Rd. A quick glance at NEWS was extremely helpful for knowing what has changed, and whether building a (more) recent development version was needed to

Re: [Rd] Disappearance of the file "NEWS"

2010-08-01 Thread Ben Bolker
Laurent gmail.com> writes: > > Dear R-developpers, > > The file NEWS disappeared in r5243, and the authoritative source of > information for what has changed in R is in ./doc/NEWS.Rd. > > A quick glance at NEWS was extremely helpful for knowing what has > changed, and whether building a (mor

Re: [Rd] R CMD build wiped my computer (from R-help)

2010-08-01 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 28/07/2010 8:10 PM, Ray Brownrigg wrote: >> NOTE: Now submitted to R-devel, as this seems more appropriate. >> >> I may have spoken too soon about this having been fixed. (see below). >> >> If I create another "unusual but not 'invalid'" filename in the R >> subdirectory