[Rd] Add links to NEWS/ChangeLog to package pages

[A.J. Rossini]

Dirk, I'm thinking of the application to CRAN, where it might be
standardizable; not to Debian, where it could only produce holy wars,
flamage, and bikeshedding.

i.e. I'd love to be able to do:

     update.packages(ListChanges=TRUE, ListBugs=TRUE) 

best,
-tony


Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:16:34AM -0700, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>> 
>> That's a great idea, Greg!  (actually, have you seen the
>> apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs features on debian, which does the
>> same prior to install?  Then you can abort the install if the changes
>> aren't what you want (or if outstanding bugs have/havn't been
>> fixed/introduced, which is even better, but linking in a bugtracking
>> system would be a PITA).
>
> It is a good idea -- but we currently do not have a standard of 
> -- whether it is CHANGES, ChangeLog or changelog
> -- whether it is in the top-level or the inst directory
>
> edd at chibud:~/src/debian/CRAN> ls */CHANGES
> multcomp-0.4.6/CHANGES  mvtnorm-0.6.8/CHANGES
> edd at chibud:~/src/debian/CRAN> ls */ChangeLog
> Rmpi-0.4.8/ChangeLog     date-1.2.17/ChangeLog    gregmisc-1.11.1/ChangeLog
> nlme-3.1.48/ChangeLog     rsprng-0.3.1/ChangeLog
> abind-1.1.0/ChangeLog    date-1.2.18/ChangeLog    gregmisc-1.11.2/ChangeLog
> quadprog-1.4.7/ChangeLog  tseries-0.9.21/ChangeLog
> cluster-1.9.1/ChangeLog  foreign-0.6.9/ChangeLog  lattice-0.9.12/ChangeLog
> rpvm-0.6.2/ChangeLog
> edd at chibud:~/src/debian/CRAN> ls */inst/CHANGES
> Rcmdr-0.9.8/inst/CHANGES  car-1.0.12/inst/CHANGES  effects-1.0.5/inst/CHANGES
> edd at chibud:~/src/debian/CRAN> ls */inst/ChangeLog
> ls: */inst/ChangeLog: No such file or directory
>
> Dirk
>
>> 
>> best,
>> -tony
>> 
>> 
>> "Warnes, Gregory R" <gregory_r_warnes at groton.pfizer.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Just a thought:
>> >
>> > It would be nice to be able to review the NEWS and/or ChangeLog files for
>> > packages via the package web page on CRAN...
>> >
>> > -Greg
>> >
>> > Gregory R. Warnes
>> > Manager, Non-Clinical Statistics
>> > Pfizer Global Research and Development
>> >
>> >
>> >
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