[Rd] NEWS file inconsistency

[Tobias Verbeke]

Many thanks, Duncan.

We will check the prerelease versions of R 3.2.1.

Best regards,
Tobias

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> To: "Tobias Verbeke" <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu>, "r-devel at r-project.org" <r-devel at r-project.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 2:37:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] NEWS file inconsistency

> 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