similar to: NEWS.md support on CRAN

>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes: > On 02/06/2015 11:05 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> 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

>>>>> 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

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.

> 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

I realise this is not directly related to the topic but if changes are afoot would it be possible to make the use of any sort of news or changelog more prominent in the documentation? I maintain one of the CRAN task views and when someone updates his/her package it is much, much easier for me to see what has happened and if I need to update the text if they supply a news or changelog. On

On 23/05/2015 10:26 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: > >> On 24 May 2015, at 12:07 pm, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 23/05/2015 9:15 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >>> While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like something much simpler: being able to "see? this file in the Help pane in RStudio >>

It's disappointing that many packages do not have a NEWS file. Perhaps CRAN should require NEWS or CHANGELOG, as long as the system is being reformed to potentially accommodate markdown anyway. -Thomas Thomas J. Leeper http://www.thomasleeper.com On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:00 PM, <r-devel-request at r-project.org> wrote: > Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:39:34 -0400 > From: Duncan

On 23/05/2015 9:15 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: > While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like something much simpler: being able to "see? this file in the Help pane in RStudio That isn't really any simpler. RStudio is just displaying HTML whenever it shows you anything in the Help pane. or being about to run something like show_news(?packagename?).

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: [...] > I think the harder problem is display. CRAN can run pandoc, but can > users who install the package from source? I would expect some obscure > platforms (like Windows ;-) would not have it available. > [...] I don't think pandoc is the best way to go with NEWS.md (and README.md,

On 2 June 2015 at 11:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | On 02/06/2015 11:05 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > 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

John MacFarlane, the author of Pandoc, has been working on a project ( http://commonmark.org/) to define a standard reference for Markdown*. There are already two reference implementations, one in javascript, the other in C: https://github.com/jgm/cmark Regards, baptiste * There was some initial controversy with the original author of markdown, but in the long term it's probably one of the

Mark, You're conflating issues here andTwo things I think you are missing: 1. Markdown was designed to be as readable as possible in plain text format (i.e. the sources, not the rendered file). There's nothing stopping you reading and parsing a NEWS.md in your head trivially. 2. The proposal here is to have R render the NEWS.md natively, and display it in your browser using it's own

On 05/06/2015 8:16 AM, Thomas J. Leeper wrote: > It's disappointing that many packages do not have a NEWS file. Perhaps > CRAN should require NEWS or CHANGELOG, as long as the system is being > reformed to potentially accommodate markdown anyway. I think we should all be careful about suggesting work for other people. This would be a huge amount of work, probably hundreds of hours

FWIW (and a bit late in the discussion, I know), I for one do not care about having NEWS in md format at all. The solution the Yihui uses (linking to GH from NEWS.Rd) is really annoying for people with no direct Internet access. For example, I work at an institute that handles a lot of private data and most VM's with R on it have no direct internet access for that reason (of course internet

On 02/06/2015 11:05 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > 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? > | >> > | >

>>>>> 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 >>

On 23/05/2015 4:05 AM, Kurt Hornik 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

A few things to clarify: 1. You do not necessarily have to keep the \usepackage{} line if you use %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}, because Pandoc will use UTF-8 anyway in its LaTeX template. 2. Perhaps the vignette engine in R has done something clever to convert utf8 to UTF-8, but I'd recommend %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} instead of %\VignetteEncoding{utf8} to make sure it is a valid encoding name,

So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist? 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

On 24/05/2015 7:20 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 23/05/2015 10:26 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >> >>> On 24 May 2015, at 12:07 pm, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 23/05/2015 9:15 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote: >>>> While a parsed HTML version of the NEWS.md file would be nice, I would like something much simpler: