Message-ID: <19575.52226.64223.644872@fangorn.hornik.net>
Date: 2010-08-27T14:30:26Z
From: Kurt Hornik
Subject: NEWS and readNEWS
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinT4RMtwV20=+iw2V8rMMbJqa1yNDEG2myBzS2a@mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> 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
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> Department of Statistics / Rice University
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