[Rd] NEWS and readNEWS

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Hadley Wickham writes:

> readNEWS() states:
>      Read R's ‘NEWS’ file or a similarly formatted one.  This is an
>      experimental feature, new in R 2.4.0 and may change in several
>      ways

> and news() also indicates that this tool is supposed to work with
> non-R news files.  However, I've not been able to get readNEWS to read
> a package news file, even when following the format indicated in
> news().  Looking at the code for readNEWS() it seems there are couple
> of places where it assumes it's working with the main R NEWS file:

>   * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS"
>   * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION "

> Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect?

readNEWS() is really for such 3-level files, but then R itself will move
to an 2-level Rd format in R 2.12.0.

Use news() to read package news files.

-k

> Hadley

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