[Rd] Disappearance of the file "NEWS"

[Ben Bolker]

Laurent <lgautier <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Dear R-developpers,
> 
> The file NEWS disappeared in r5243, and the authoritative source of 
> information for what has changed in R is in ./doc/NEWS.Rd.
> 
> A quick glance at NEWS was extremely helpful for knowing what has 
> changed, and whether building a (more) recent development version was 
> needed to test changes, or verify that they would not break existing code.

 [snip to make Gmane happy]

  Agreed.  This change also breaks the link on the R developers
page:

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS

although one can still, sort of, get to the information via

http://developer.r-project.org/RSSfeeds.html