From rgentlem at jimmy.harvard.edu  Thu Jan 22 19:21:52 2004
From: rgentlem at jimmy.harvard.edu (Robert Gentleman)
Date: Thu Jan 22 19:23:57 2004
Subject: [Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}
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	from luke@stat.uiowa.edu on Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:37:26AM -0600
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:37:26AM -0600, Luke Tierney wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:48:04 -0800, you wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > >Some of us don't mind using XML because it gives us much more
> > >flexibility to do interesting things with our data quite easily at the
> > >expense of a little markup.  
> > 
> > Would it be easy to write a function that read the XML and produced
> > something like the current NEWS format?
> > 
> > If that's easy, then one option is to suggest that people keep the
> > original source in XML, with the BUILD process doing the conversion,
> > but allow people to edit the human-readable version directly if they
> > prefer.  
> 
> Duncan TL's suggestion to use Using R for the mark-up structure seems
> very reasonable to me.  Asking package authors to write in XML
> directly, or anything that would make doing that the path of least
> resistance, is I think a non-starter.
> 

  I agree completely. We need to be careful about making package
  writing more difficult than it already is (and for some it is 
  very difficult). 

  Robert



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[Rd] ChangeLog for R packages {was "Wish list"}
Robert Gentleman