On 02/06/2015 11:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 2 June 2015 at 11:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| On 02/06/2015 11:05 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > Hi Kurt,
| >
| > On 1 June 2015 at 14:02, Kurt Hornik wrote:
| > | >>>>> peter dalgaard writes:
| > |
| > | >> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan <i.costi...@me.com> wrote:
| > | >>
| > | >> So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist?
| > | >>
| > |
| > | > ....in the development version. Not true of released versions.
| > |
| > | Now also in r-patched.
| >
| > Nice.
| >
| > Now, is there a way for package authors to preview how a .md would be
| > rendered? I wrote mine with GitHub in mind, and they render fine. I looked
a
| > recently-uploaded README.md of mine on CRAN, and it got some of the pandoc-y
| > parts wrong --- and looks unprofessional.
| >
| > I would like to avoid that. How can I?
|
| In the short term, you should probably try to run pandoc with the same
| version and options as CRAN. Kurt, can you say what these are? If you
| (Dirk) know pandoc options that emulate Github, it would probably make
| sense for CRAN to use those.
|
| In the longer term, the plan is to include our own parser and renderer.
| At that point this would be easy.
Thumbs up -- the 'rmarkdown' package by JJ et al basically already does just
this, and I have now authored a few (beamer) presentations that way. And
quite like it. It is all fully scriptable -- and of course available
interactive in whatever R shell you prefer -- and only requires pandoc
besides what is on CRAN. Maybe medium-term Jeroen's commonmark can replace
pandoc and then we'd fully based on CRAN packages.
Several of us have been talking about this, and have more or less
decided against pandoc for the within-R version. It is too hard to
build, or to include with R, on weird platforms. Something like
commonmark is more likely. We'd also like to separate the parse and
render steps.
Duncan Murdoch
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