From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Wed May 27 14:26:14 2015
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 08:26:14 -0400
Subject: [Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN
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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.

In answer to your original question:  plans are now being formed.  It
seems as though full support should be feasible, but someone needs to
volunteer to do it and maintain it.

By full support, I mean support that's equal to the support for NEWS.Rd
on CRAN and in R.

It's possible we'll get weaker support sooner, e.g. display of the
Markdown source in R and pandoc output on CRAN; that remains to be
determined.

No predicted time line for any of this.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN
Duncan Murdoch