It can be used currently. If you remove the .md extension but keep the format
in should be recognized. As described in the ?news help page
If 'package' is '"R"' (default), a news db is built with the news
since the 3.0.0 release of R (corresponding to R's top-level
'NEWS' file). Otherwise, if the given add-on package can be found
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).
Please also note your news file is formatted incorrectly. from the ?news
The plain text 'NEWS' files in add-on packages use a variety of
different formats; the default news reader should be capable to
extract individual news entries from a majority of packages from
the standard repositories, which use (slight variations of) the
following format:
� Entries are grouped according to version, with version header
"Changes in version" at the beginning of a line, followed by
a version number, optionally followed by an ISO 8601 format
date, possibly parenthesized.
� Entries may be grouped according to category, with a category
header (different from a version header) starting at the
beginning of a line.
� Entries are written as itemize-type lists, using one of 'o',
'*', '-' or '+' as item tag. Entries must be indented, and
ideally use a common indentation for the item texts.
Please remove the pound sign (# ) from the header entry - and use "Changes in
version" not "BioCor"
so for example:
# BioCor 0.99.25
* Update Vignette to just output html
# BioCor 0.99.24
* Submit the package to the Bioconductor project
# BioCor 0.99.23
* Add the Bioconductor webhook
Would become
Changes in version 0.99.25
* Update Vignette to just output html
Changes in version 0.99.24
* Submit the package to the Bioconductor project
Changes in version 0.99.23
* Add the Bioconductor webhook
Lori Shepherd
Bioconductor Core Team
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Elm & Carlton Streets
Buffalo, New York 14263
________________________________
From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Llu�s Revilla
<lluis.revi...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 3:20:39 AM
To: bioc-devel
Subject: [Bioc-devel] NEWS.md
Dear Bioconductor team,
I found that the new R version 3.5.1, to be used with the new release of
Bioconductor, supports the �NEWS.md� files.
I updated my package (BioCor) to use `NEWS.md`. However, on the devel
landing page of the package stills shows the old file NEWS file. This is
consistent with the developer page (
https://www.bioconductor.org/developers/package-guidelines/#news).
Will this be a requirement or can I keep the NEWS.md file?
Many thanks,
Llu�s
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