[Rd] faqs

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 06:39:14 CET 2007


And one other thing.  In the GNU docs it says that if your NEWS file gets too
big you can create an ONEWS file for the really old stuff.   Is ONEWS supported
too?

On Nov 16, 2007 11:12 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 15, 2007 10:51 AM, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 15, 2007 9:57 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:55 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> > >
> > > > inst/NEWS would have the advantage of consistency with R itself
> > > > which also has a NEWS file.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I vote for NEWS for reasons above plus because that's what I use in my
> > > packages already ;).
> > > IMHO it should be installed automatically if present, i.e. it
> > > shouldn't be necessary to have it in inst/NEWS, just plain NEWS should
> > > suffice.
> > >
> >
> > I agree that that would be desirable.
>
> Also it would be nice if the HTML files here:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/
>
> each had a link to the NEWS file so one could get the news on a
> package prior to
> installing it.
>



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