Disappearance of the file "NEWS"
Laurent <lgautier <at> gmail.com> writes:
Dear R-developpers, The file NEWS disappeared in r5243, and the authoritative source of information for what has changed in R is in ./doc/NEWS.Rd. A quick glance at NEWS was extremely helpful for knowing what has changed, and whether building a (more) recent development version was needed to test changes, or verify that they would not break existing code.
[snip to make Gmane happy] Agreed. This change also breaks the link on the R developers page: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS although one can still, sort of, get to the information via http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html