[R-pkg-devel] dates in NEWS.Rd headers are ignored

[Uwe Ligges]

On 29.08.2022 11:01, Adelchi Azzalini wrote:
> Hi. In the last version of package ’sn’ (v. 2.1.0) the old NEWS text file
> has been converted to inst/NEWS.Rd. The headers in this file are of the form
> 
> \section{Changes in sn version 2.1.0 (2022-07-30)}
> \section{Changes in sn version 2.0.2 (2022-03-07)}
> and so on
> 
> However, when I now look at the package documentation in the HTML rendering,
> the “NEWS in packages ’sn’”  does NOT display the dates!
> 
> Details on the session are reported below, in case they are relevant.
> 
> Can anyone explain how show these dates?

In an interacticve session news(package="sn")  open a web page in some 
web browser and the html code does not contain the dates, but the text 
form does:

print(news(package="sn"), doBrowse=FALSE)

To analyzse more precisely, we can directly look at the database if the 
format was read correctly:

db <- news(package="sn")
str(db)
db$Date

and all dates were read correctly.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

> ---
> Adelchi Azzalini
> http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it
> 
> 
> 
> R> sessionInfo()
> R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23)
> Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
> Running under: macOS Monterey 12.5.1
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib
> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
> 
> Random number generation:
>   RNG:     Mersenne-Twister
>   Normal:  Inversion
>   Sample:  Rounding
>   
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid      stats4    stats     utils     datasets  grDevices graphics  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] gtable_0.3.0  ggplot2_3.3.6 sn_2.1.0
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>   [1] Rcpp_1.0.8.3        highr_0.9           pillar_1.7.0        compiler_4.2.1
>   [5] tools_4.2.1         digest_0.6.29       evaluate_0.15       lifecycle_1.0.1
>   [9] tibble_3.1.7        lattice_0.20-45     pkgconfig_2.0.3     rlang_1.0.2
> [13] Matrix_1.4-1        cli_3.3.0           xfun_0.31           stringr_1.4.0
> [17] withr_2.5.0         dplyr_1.0.9         knitr_1.39          generics_0.1.2
> [21] vctrs_0.4.1         isoband_0.2.5       tidyselect_1.1.2    glue_1.6.2
> [25] R6_2.5.1            fansi_1.0.3         purrr_0.3.4         farver_2.1.0
> [29] magrittr_2.0.3      scales_1.2.0        ellipsis_0.3.2      mnormt_2.1.0
> [33] colorspace_2.0-3    numDeriv_2016.8-1.1 labeling_0.4.2      utf8_1.2.2
> [37] stringi_1.7.6       munsell_0.5.0       crayon_1.5.1
> R>
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