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>>>>> 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

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

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

>>>>> 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

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 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 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 >>

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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:

Dear Thomas, it is, unfortunately, not that simple. t.test() returns an object of class "htest" and not all such objects have standard errors. I'm not entirely sure what the point is since it's easy to compute the standard error of the difference from the information in the object (adapting an example from ?t.test): > (res <- t.test(1:10, y = c(7:20))) Welch Two Sample

I'm currently working on a new package for R that interfaces with an API. Most of the package's functionality requires users to supply an access key that allows the package to work with the API. I want to display text immediately upon loading the package that instructs/reminds users to enter their access key before attempting to do anything (as the package won't really work without

On 02/06/2015 11:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > 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

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