On 17 April 2009 at 09:05, Duncan Murdoch wrote: | That would be a waste of time. People don't use the package | documentation schemes that are in place; why would they use a new one? Because of scattered documentation and lack of best practices? Many things are possible with R and packages, how many are really done consistently? I think this points to a need for better examples, better docs, and better package checking tools.
I happended to have the same discussion via email last night with Brian (CCed) who wanted to see NEWS / Changes in my CRANberries RSS feed for CRAN. I suggested pretty much what Philippe suggested in the first post in this thread --- with one addition. I think we need a test in R CMD check that emits a warning if there is no inst/NEWS or inst/Changes or inst/Changelog. Your reminder of the parseable NEWS file was timely. I would suggest to have both NEWS (for 'big' events) and Changes (for 'smaller', incremental changes). I'd be happy to help code an additional parser Changes and/or some checks for R CMD check if a consensus emerges that this is doable. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
