[Rd] Minimum requirements for package submission

[Hadley Wickham]

>> Related rant: I really wish we had "CHANGES" file, or a section in the
>> manuals. It is virtually impossible to look at a current "Writing R
>> Extensions" manual, and a previous one, in order to get a succinct view of
>> what changed.  Having to diff the NEWS files, or glancing at commit logs
>> via
>> the RCS is a very poor proxy.
>
> I don't understand the difference between the CHANGES file you are asking
> for and the NEWS file.  Do you want something in purely chronological order,
> rather than categorized as NEWS is?

I think Dirk was talking about a CHANGES/NEWS file for "Writing R extensions"

Hadley

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