> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan <i.costigan at me.com> 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 <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> 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 at r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at 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.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
>>>>> peter dalgaard writes:>> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan <i.costigan at me.com> wrote: >> >> So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? >>> ....in the development version. Not true of released versions.Now also in r-patched. -k> -pd>> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 23 May 2015, at 6:05 pm, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> 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 at r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at 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.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com> ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Hi Kurt, On 1 June 2015 at 14:02, Kurt Hornik wrote: | >>>>> peter dalgaard writes: | | >> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan <i.costigan at me.com> wrote: | >> | >> So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? | >> | | > ....in the development version. Not true of released versions. | | Now also in r-patched. Nice. Now, is there a way for package authors to preview how a .md would be rendered? I wrote mine with GitHub in mind, and they render fine. I looked a recently-uploaded README.md of mine on CRAN, and it got some of the pandoc-y parts wrong --- and looks unprofessional. I would like to avoid that. How can I? Dirk | -k | | > -pd | | | >> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a | >> | >> Sent from my iPad | >> | >> On 23 May 2015, at 6:05 pm, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> 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 at r-project.org mailing list | >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel | >> | >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] | >> | >> ______________________________________________ | >> R-devel at 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.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com | | > ______________________________________________ | > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list | > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel | | ______________________________________________ | R-devel at r-project.org mailing list | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org