[Rd] NEWS.md support on CRAN

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes:

> On 02/06/2015 11:05 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> Hi Kurt,
>> 
>> On 1 June 2015 at 14:02, Kurt Hornik wrote:
>> | >>>>> peter dalgaard writes:
>> |
>> | >> On 30 May 2015, at 01:20 , Imanuel Costigan <i.costigan at me.com> wrote:
>> | >>
>> | >> So I assume this commit means NEWS.md is now no longer on blacklist?
>> | >>
>> |
>> | > ....in the development version. Not true of released versions.
>> |
>> | Now also in r-patched.
>> 
>> Nice.
>> 
>> Now, is there a way for package authors to preview how a .md would be
>> rendered?  I wrote mine with GitHub in mind, and they render fine. I looked a
>> recently-uploaded README.md of mine on CRAN, and it got some of the pandoc-y
>> parts wrong --- and looks unprofessional.
>> 
>> I would like to avoid that.  How can I?

> In the short term, you should probably try to run pandoc with the same 
> version and options as CRAN.  Kurt, can you say what these are?  If you 
> (Dirk) know pandoc options that emulate Github, it would probably make 
> sense for CRAN to use those.

Sure.  We currently have

pandoc 1.12.4.2
Compiled with texmath 0.6.6.1, highlighting-kate 0.5.8.5.

which we use with --email-obfuscation=references.

Best
-k

> In the longer term, the plan is to include our own parser and renderer.  
> At that point this would be easy.

> Duncan Murdoch
>> 
>> Dirk
>> 
>> 
>> | -k
>> |
>> | > -pd
>> |
>> |
>> | >> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/9ffe87264a1cd59a31a829f72d57af0f1bfa327a
>> | >>
>> | >> Sent from my iPad
>> | >>
>> | >> On 23 May 2015, at 6:05 pm, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> wrote:
>> | >>
>> | >>>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes:
>> | >>>
>> | >>>>> On 22/05/2015 8:49 PM, Imanuel Costigan wrote:
>> | >>>>> Are there any plans for CRAN to support NEWS files in markdown? Bit of a hassle to go the the package’s Github (or other like) site to read NEWS.
>> | >>>
>> | >>>> Not as far as I know.  There have been discussions about increasing the
>> | >>>> support of Markdown, but so far the conclusion has been that it's too
>> | >>>> hard to do -- the support is not stable enough on all the platforms
>> | >>>> where R runs.
>> | >>>
>> | >>> There are actually two issues here.
>> | >>>
>> | >>> For CRAN, we could in principle take inst/NEWS.md files, convert these
>> | >>> to HTML using pandoc, and use the HTML for the package web page.  (Would
>> | >>> need the CRAN incoming checks to be taught about inst/NEWS.md.)
>> | >>>
>> | >>> However, we cannot use such files for utils::news() because we do not
>> | >>> (yet?) know how to reliably parse such files and extract the news items
>> | >>> (and hence cannot really compute on the news information).
>> | >>>
>> | >>> Btw, currently only one package on CRAN has inst/NEWS.md (another one
>> | >>> has NEWS.md at top level).
>> | >>>
>> | >>> Best
>> | >>> -k
>> | >>>
>> | >>>> Markdown is allowed for vignettes (because the package author processes
>> | >>>> those), so I'd suggest putting your news into a vignette instead of a
>> | >>>> news file.  Put in a token news file that points to the vignette so
>> | >>>> users can find it.
>> | >>>
>> | >>>> Duncan Murdoch
>> | >>>
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