Note that NEWS.md (Markdown) is only partially supported, e.g. news() does _not_ pick it up, cf. https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/Wishlist-for-R/issues/40
/Henrik On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Martin Morgan <martin.mor...@roswellpark.org> wrote: > On 09/09/2017 06:11 PM, Levi Waldron wrote: >> >> What's the currently recommended location for package NEWS? At >> https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/package-submission/ it says >> inst/NEWS, and I feel like I heard somewhere that NEWS.md was supported. >> But in a scan of the first page of https://github.com/bioconductor, all >> use >> NEWS in the base package directory, and that is the only option I was able >> to make show up on >> >> https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/data/experiment/news/curatedMetagenomicData/NEWS >> when I played with it a couple months ago. Just want to get it straight. > > > Writing R extensions points to ?news, which says > > in the given libraries, it is attempted to read its news in > structured form from files 'inst/NEWS.Rd', 'NEWS' or 'inst/NEWS' > (in that order). > > All three are supported on the web site (I verified this with annotate > [inst/NEWS.Rd], zinbwave [inst/NEWS], and KEGGREST [NEWS]) and all are > installed at the root of system.file(package=.). > > Martin > >> >> -Levi >> > > > This email message may contain legally privileged and/or...{{dropped:2}} > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
