On 13/11/2009 3:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Hi,
right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and
the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even
know that you are supposed to look for them.
I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added
to the help.start() overview pages. help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG")
and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to them as well.
I've done this now in R-devel.
(I thought I'd written about this yesterday, but I don't see my post, so
maybe it never made it out. If it did, the text below may be a repeat.)
It would look better if the files were translated into HTML. Anyone
want to write a news2HTML function?
I haven't done any of the package-specific suggestions yet; they're
slightly trickier because packages are inconsistent in how they present
news. For those, I think we should use the news() function, but it
requires the news2HTML translation to give nice looking output.
Duncan Murdoch
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