[Rd] NEWS and readNEWS

[Hadley Wickham]

>>   * s.post <- " SERIES NEWS"
>>   * s.pre <- "^[\t ]*CHANGES IN R VERSION "
>
>> Is this a bug or is the documentation incorrect?
>
> readNEWS() is really for such 3-level files, but then R itself will move
> to an 2-level Rd format in R 2.12.0.
>
> Use news() to read package news files.

Ah, ok, this is rather unclear from the current documentation.  So if
I want to read a NEWS file off disk to check that I have the right
format (without installing the package first), I should use
tools:::.build_news_db ?

Hadley

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