[Rd] should the top of doc/NEWS.3 mention doc/NEWS.Rd ?

[Benjamin Tyner]

On 4/13/25 12:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 2025-04-13 11:07 a.m., Benjamin Tyner wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> As of r80088, at the top of doc/NEWS.3 file it says:
>>
>>> LATER NEWS:
>>>
>>>    • News for R 4.x.y can be found in HTML format at 
>>> doc/html/NEWS.html,
>>>      and in text format in file NEWS in the doc directory.
>> However as far as I can tell, neither NEWS nor NEWS.html exists in the R
>> source. Should doc/NEWS.3 be amended to point to doc/NEWS.Rd instead?
>
> I think that message is intended to be read when you are reading the 
> page in an installed version of R.  If you run help.start(), you'll 
> see those files.
>
> However, depending on options when you installed R, you may or may not 
> actually have static copies of them installed.  The help server in R 
> may generate them on the fly.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
Makes sense; thank you Duncan!