NEWS and readNEWS

Hadley Wickham writes:
readNEWS() states:
     Read R's ?NEWS? file or a similarly formatted one.  This is an
     experimental feature, new in R 2.4.0 and may change in several
     ways
and news() also indicates that this tool is supposed to work with
non-R news files.  However, I've not been able to get readNEWS to read
a package news file, even when following the format indicated in
news().  Looking at the code for readNEWS() it seems there are couple
of places where it assumes it's working with the main R NEWS file:
  * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS"
  * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION "
Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect?
readNEWS() is really for such 3-level files, but then R itself will move
to an 2-level Rd format in R 2.12.0.

Use news() to read package news files.

-k
Hadley
-- 
Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/

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