[Rd] news file included in source but not binary package
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jun 24 15:59:45 CEST 2004
Use the inst directory - it's documented in Writing R Extensions, and has
lots of examples on CRAN.
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> I've noticed that when I place a `NEWS' file in the top-level directory for
> a package, then do R CMD build mypkg, the file gets included in the .tar.gz
> file. However, if I do R CMD build --binary mypkg, the `NEWS' file does not
> get included in the .zip file. Is this intentional? Is there a way I can
> get such a file included in the pre-compiled package automatically?
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