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2011 Feb 19
1
Accessing Package NEWS (NEWS.Rd)
...e never really tracking down
why my package NEWS files were unacceptable to readNEWS(), I
noticed that there was recent (to me anyway) development that allowed
the NEWS to be done as an Rd file. Sweet! A more standard format...
I converted a NEWS file in one of my unreleased packages to Rd format.
checkNEWS() gave it a thumbs up.
But then it went south. Tried the following after installation:
> checkNEWS("myapp/trunk/MyApp/inst/NEWS.Rd")
[1] TRUE
> news(package="MyApp")
Nothing.
Debugging news() itself left me wondering. The first thing checked
for was 'inst/NEWS.Rd...
2010 Nov 14
0
What is "R NEWS format"?
...ere's from the R Forge:
http://www.rforge.net/do/rf/eng/docs.html
"If a project contains a NEWS file in its repository root then it is
accessible (in beautified form) as "News" menu item. It is assumed to
be in a form similar to R's NEWS file, but any format will do."
A checkNEWS function in the 'tools' package (which I couldn't find on CRAN):
http://www.inside-r.org/r-doc/tools/checkNEWS
"Read R's ?NEWS? file or a similarly formatted one."
2008 Apr 22
3
R 2.7.0 is released
...gnettes() lists available vignettes in an
HTML browser with links to PDF, Rnw, and R files.
o There are new capabilities "aqua" (for the AQUA GUI and quartz()
device on Mac OS X) and "cairo" (for cairo-based graphics
devices).
o New function checkNEWS() in package 'tools' that detects common
errors in NEWS file formatting.
o deparse() gains a new argument 'nlines' to limit the number of
lines of output, and this is used internally to make several
functions more efficient.
o deriv() now knows...
2008 Apr 22
3
R 2.7.0 is released
...gnettes() lists available vignettes in an
HTML browser with links to PDF, Rnw, and R files.
o There are new capabilities "aqua" (for the AQUA GUI and quartz()
device on Mac OS X) and "cairo" (for cairo-based graphics
devices).
o New function checkNEWS() in package 'tools' that detects common
errors in NEWS file formatting.
o deparse() gains a new argument 'nlines' to limit the number of
lines of output, and this is used internally to make several
functions more efficient.
o deriv() now knows...