May I suggest that people use the new'ish NEWS.Rd format where the file is placed in inst/NEWS.Rd and the content is written using Rd format.
Kasper On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtene...@fhcrc.org> wrote: > Package developers -- > > Each Bioconductor release is accompanied by release notes that mention > new packages and other significant project developments. For the > forthcoming release we will include release notes for > individual packages, so that users have an easy way to survey changes > in their favorite packages. > > To have your package release notes made available in the Bioconductor > release notes, please arrange for your package to include a NEWS.Rd or > NEWS file that can be parsed by the utils::news function (please make sure > this function runs without error on your package, or your package NEWS will > not be included in the release announcement). We'll run > this command over all packages, using a 'query' argument that captures > all updates more recent than the start of the current release cycle. > For instance, Rsamtools in the devel branch is at version "1.17.34", so > we'll get news with > > > utils::news(Version >= "1.17.0", "Rsamtools") > > See ?news for more detail. We will collate these files no later than > Sunday, > October 12 at 5PM Seattle time. > > Thanks, > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
