From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Sun Nov 15 13:21:31 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:21:31 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start()
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On 13/11/2009 3:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and
> the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even
> know that you are supposed to look for them.
> 
> I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added
> to the help.start() overview pages.  help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG")
> and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to them as well.
> 

I've done this now in R-devel.

(I thought I'd written about this yesterday, but I don't see my post, so 
maybe it never made it out.  If it did, the text below may be a repeat.)

It would look better if the files were translated into HTML.  Anyone 
want to write a news2HTML function?

I haven't done any of the package-specific suggestions yet; they're 
slightly trickier because packages are inconsistent in how they present 
news.  For those, I think we should use the news() function, but it 
requires the news2HTML translation to give nice looking output.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page
Duncan Murdoch