[Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

[Yihui Xie]

What I do is to use inst/NEWS.Rd as a placeholder that points to the
NEWS.md on Github, e.g.
http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/knitr/index.html

Regards,
Yihui
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/05/2015 8:49 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote:
>> Are there any plans for CRAN to support NEWS files in markdown? Bit of a hassle to go the the package’s Github (or other like) site to read NEWS.
>
> Not as far as I know.  There have been discussions about increasing the
> support of Markdown, but so far the conclusion has been that it's too
> hard to do -- the support is not stable enough on all the platforms
> where R runs.
>
> Markdown is allowed for vignettes (because the package author processes
> those), so I'd suggest putting your news into a vignette instead of a
> news file.  Put in a token news file that points to the vignette so
> users can find it.
>
> Duncan Murdoch