[Rd] NEWS file inconsistency

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 06/06/2015 12:11 PM, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> Many thanks, Duncan.
>
> We will check the prerelease versions of R 3.2.1.

The first one is now online, at 
<http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rtest.html>.  The link to 
this from the main Windows binary page will appear soon, but you can go 
directly right now.  Mirrors may be a little behind.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> 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