tember 25, 2018 7:01:36 PM
> *To:* lg...@cam.ac.uk
> *Cc:* Shepherd, Lori; lluis.revi...@gmail.com; bioc-devel@r-project.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Bioc-devel] NEWS.md
>
> Forgot to mention that here's how news() select which file to parse if
> there are several:
>
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Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] NEWS.md
Forgot to mention that here's how news() select which file to parse if
there are several:
## Look for new-style inst/NEWS.Rd installed as NEWS.Rd
## If not found, look for NEWS.md.
## If not found, look at old-style
## N
Forgot to mention that here's how news() select which file to parse if
there are several:
## Look for new-style inst/NEWS.Rd installed as NEWS.Rd
## If not found, look for NEWS.md.
## If not found, look at old-style
## NEWS inst/NEWS
## installed as NEWS (and ignore ChangeLog files).
Source:
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Note that in R-devel, we have that
(https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html):
* news() gains support for ‘NEWS.md’ files.
That is, news(package = pkg) not only finds NEWS.md (as before) but
also parses it (into sections etc.) analogously to how it parses
NEWS.Rd and NEWS.
Becaus
Dear all,
My experience (and things may have changed since I set this up) is that
NEWS and NEWS.md serve different purposes despite a very similar
syntax. The former is used by news() and displayed on the Bioconductor
page (would NEWS.md be used if NEWS was absent?), while the one with the
md ex
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)
