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 -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
