From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Sat May 23 03:08:14 2015
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 21:08:14 -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.

Not as far as I know.  There have been discussions about increasing the
support of Markdown, but so far the conclusion has been that it's too
hard to do -- the support is not stable enough on all the platforms
where R runs.

Markdown is allowed for vignettes (because the package author processes
those), so I'd suggest putting your news into a vignette instead of a
news file.  Put in a token news file that points to the vignette so
users can find it.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN
Duncan Murdoch