From edd at debian.org  Tue May 23 16:22:41 2006
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:22:41 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:21:18AM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> I currently put my NEWS file in ./inst as the build procedure will

Yes, but for what I suggested we need standardized location as well as
format to permit automatic extraction, formatting, processing, ... off-line. 
For just one glimpse at that consider Debian's changelog site at
changelog.debian.net (NB .net not .org as it is a contributed site), and
eg 
	     http://changelog.debian.net/r-base
for a nine-year maintenance history of R within Debian.

I really want summaries to pop up in my rss reader to glance at what was
updated on CRAN.  But as Kurt pointed out, that may be Quixotic. Too bad.

Dirk

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Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
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[Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN
Dirk Eddelbuettel