[Rd] Typo in NEWS: -as-cran should be --as-cran

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:21 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 03:13 , Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>
>> Under 'CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.14.2' in NEWS, there is:
>>
>> "R CMD check has a new option -as-cran to turn on most of the
>> customizations that CRAN uses for its incoming checks."
>>
>> "-as-cran" should be "--as-cran".
>
> Where do you see that?

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-2.14.2rc.html
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/NEWS.R-devel.html

and with R version 2.14.2 RC (2012-02-26 r58511):

> tail(head(news(), n=7), n=1)
Changes in version 2.14.2:

UTILITIES

    o   R CMD check has a new option -as-cran to turn on most of the
         customizations that CRAN uses for its incoming checks.


BTW, with R Under development (unstable) (2012-02-29 r58531) [on Win7]
news() gives:
> news()
Error: invalid version specification 'CHANGES IN R-devel'


/Henrik

PS. Thxs you all for the new release.

>
> The sources have
>
>      \item \command{R CMD check} has a new option \option{--as-cran} to
>      turn on most of the customizations that CRAN uses for its incoming
>      checks.
>
> but there has been issues with LaTeX converting "--" to en-dash. (We saw it with the style files used for The R Journal, but that is hardly the case this time.)
>
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
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