[Rd] NEWS file inconsistency
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 14:37:04 CEST 2015
On 06/06/2015 8:18 AM, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> L.S.
>
> I noticed the NEWS file as made available at http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS became inconsistent in describing CHANGES for a new R version:
>
> $ wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/NEWS
> $ cat NEWS | grep 'CHANGES IN '
> CHANGES IN 3.2.0:
> CHANGES IN R 3.1.3:
> CHANGES IN R 3.1.2:
> CHANGES IN R 3.1.1:
> CHANGES IN R 3.1.0:
> CHANGES IN R 3.0.3:
> CHANGES IN R 3.0.2:
> CHANGES IN R 3.0.1:
> CHANGES IN R 3.0.0:
>
> Not a big issue, obviously, but we were parsing the file as part of a build procedure.
That's already been fixed, and hopefully it won't happen again in 3.2.1,
due in a couple of weeks. I thought it had been fixed before release,
but apparently not.
Please do check the 3.2.1 pre-release versions (starting Monday) and
make sure they work with your tools.
Duncan
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