Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changes to checks on NEWS?
The important information is in the body of the man page for news(), i.e., found by ?utils::news and this explains why putting an "o" in front of a line clears the NOTE. Once I realized that CRAN is running this, I could see the "why". Thanks. JN On 2023-07-26 10:25, Duncan Murdoch wrote: NEWS has been used for a long time by the utils::news() function, which in turn is used by the HTML help system. Duncan Murdoch __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changes to checks on NEWS?
On 26/07/2023 10:18 a.m., J C Nash wrote:
Thanks for the info, though it seems odd that CRAN wants to
parse a plain text file that is purely for information, since it
should have no impact on the current package or any other. I suppose
there might be character set issues to check. The motive for parsing
it eludes me.
Does anyone know if there are plans to use NEWS for some purpose in
the future i.e., to actually track changes beyond package maintainer's
comments?
NEWS has been used for a long time by the utils::news() function, which
in turn is used by the HTML help system.
Duncan Murdoch
Cheers, and thanks again.
JN
On 2023-07-26 10:03, Ivan Krylov wrote:
В Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:37:38 -0400
J C Nash пишет:
I'd like to avoid NOTEs if possible, and since I'm using a plain-text
NEWS, don't believe this should trigger one.
Plain-text NEWS files are parsed according to the rules specified in
help(news), which is admittedly laconic in its description. If you run
tools:::.news_reader_default('https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/optimx/NEWS')
(or news(package = 'optimx')), you can see that R's news() already
misunderstands some of the contents of your NEWS file.
A relatively recent change (r82543, July 2022) set
_R_CHECK_NEWS_IN_PLAIN_TEXT_=TRUE for R CMD check --as-cran and started
verifying that R's plain text "news reader" function could actually
parse plain-text NEWS files without warnings or errors.
I think that if you rename NEWS to ChangeLog, R will leave the file
alone, but CRAN will offer it to users as plain text.
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Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changes to checks on NEWS?
Thanks for the info, though it seems odd that CRAN wants to
parse a plain text file that is purely for information, since it
should have no impact on the current package or any other. I suppose
there might be character set issues to check. The motive for parsing
it eludes me.
Does anyone know if there are plans to use NEWS for some purpose in
the future i.e., to actually track changes beyond package maintainer's
comments?
Cheers, and thanks again.
JN
On 2023-07-26 10:03, Ivan Krylov wrote:
В Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:37:38 -0400
J C Nash пишет:
I'd like to avoid NOTEs if possible, and since I'm using a plain-text
NEWS, don't believe this should trigger one.
Plain-text NEWS files are parsed according to the rules specified in
help(news), which is admittedly laconic in its description. If you run
tools:::.news_reader_default('https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/optimx/NEWS')
(or news(package = 'optimx')), you can see that R's news() already
misunderstands some of the contents of your NEWS file.
A relatively recent change (r82543, July 2022) set
_R_CHECK_NEWS_IN_PLAIN_TEXT_=TRUE for R CMD check --as-cran and started
verifying that R's plain text "news reader" function could actually
parse plain-text NEWS files without warnings or errors.
I think that if you rename NEWS to ChangeLog, R will leave the file
alone, but CRAN will offer it to users as plain text.
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Re: [R-pkg-devel] Changes to checks on NEWS?
В Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:37:38 -0400
J C Nash пишет:
> I'd like to avoid NOTEs if possible, and since I'm using a plain-text
> NEWS, don't believe this should trigger one.
Plain-text NEWS files are parsed according to the rules specified in
help(news), which is admittedly laconic in its description. If you run
tools:::.news_reader_default('https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/optimx/NEWS')
(or news(package = 'optimx')), you can see that R's news() already
misunderstands some of the contents of your NEWS file.
A relatively recent change (r82543, July 2022) set
_R_CHECK_NEWS_IN_PLAIN_TEXT_=TRUE for R CMD check --as-cran and started
verifying that R's plain text "news reader" function could actually
parse plain-text NEWS files without warnings or errors.
I think that if you rename NEWS to ChangeLog, R will leave the file
alone, but CRAN will offer it to users as plain text.
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Best regards,
Ivan
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[R-pkg-devel] Changes to checks on NEWS?
In work on an upgrade to my optimx package, I added to my (plain text) NEWS file. The lines VERSION 2023-06-25 o This is a MAJOR revision and overhaul of the optimx package and its components. o Fixed CITATION file based on R CMD check --as-cran complaints regarding requirement for person() and bibentry() changes. pass R CMD check --as-cran but VERSION 2023-06-25 This is a MAJOR revision and overhaul of the optimx package and its components. o Fixed CITATION file based on R CMD check --as-cran complaints regarding requirement for person() and bibentry() changes. give a NOTE that news cannot process the chunk/lines in NEWS. R CMD checkpasses. (i.e., CRAN checks are tripping the NOTE). I don't see anything about this in Writing R Extensions at moment. Does anyone have information on what may have changed. I'd like to avoid NOTEs if possible, and since I'm using a plain-text NEWS, don't believe this should trigger one. The version that passes was the result of some almost random tries to see what would trigger a note. Cheers, John Nash __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
