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

[peter dalgaard]

Also, the files do exist in the build directory after R has been built. 

I suppose that we could copy them into the sources for the distribution, but generically, it is bad luck for tarballs to include both sources and build results because it confuses the Makefile dependencies (& we have plenty of scars from keeping the gram*.y/gram*.c files consistent.)

-pd

> On 13 Apr 2025, at 18.32, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> 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
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