[Rd] returnValue()

2015-05-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In R devel rev.66393 (2014-08-15) it was possible to do this: trace(optim, exit = quote(str(returnValue( but returnValue() does not seem to be available any more. The above was useful to get the output of a function when it was called deep within another function that I have no control ov

Re: [Rd] returnValue()

2015-05-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Please disregard. I was running an older version of R at the time. In R version 3.2.0 Patched (2015-04-19 r68205) returnValue() does work. On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > In R devel rev.66393 (2014-08-15) it was possible to do this: > >trace(optim, exit = quote(s

[Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-22 Thread Imanuel Costigan
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. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-22 Thread Imanuel Costigan
What about treating it as a plain text file (i.e. no need for CRAN to support parsing)? > On 23 May 2015, at 11:08 am, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > 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 pa

Re: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

2015-05-22 Thread Yihui Xie
What I do is to use inst/NEWS.Rd as a placeholder that points to the NEWS.md on Github, e.g. http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/knitr/index.html Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Web: http://yihui.name On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 22/05/2015 8:49 PM, Imanuel Costigan