[R-pkg-devel] Format/parser for NEWS (not NEWS.Rd)?

boB Rudis bob at rudis.net
Thu Oct 8 03:40:02 CEST 2015


Try looking at the source for tools:::.news_reader_default and then tools::toRd

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
<henrik.bengtsson at ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a parser of the plain text NEWS format (not the
> NEWS.Rd format) - ideally the same on that is used by R itself.  Does
> anyone know which that one is / of such at tool?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Henrik
>
> PS. help("news") mentions tools:::news2Rd(), but that's actually
> defunct (just reported
> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16556).
>
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