R devel - Apr 2025 - should the top of doc/NEWS.3 mention doc/NEWS.Rd ?

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 doc/NEWS.3 be amended to point to doc/NEWS.Rd instead?

Regards

Ben

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, neither NEWS nor NEWS.html exists in the R
> source. Should doc/NEWS.3 be amended to point to doc/NEWS.Rd instead?
I think that message is intended to be read when you are reading the 
page in an installed version of R.  If you run help.start(), you'll see 
those files.

However, depending on options when you installed R, you may or may not 
actually have static copies of them installed.  The help server in R may 
generate them on the fly.

Duncan Murdoch