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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 29.08.2022 13:06, Adelchi Azzalini wrote:
> Thanks, Uwe. What you write illustrates in greater detail the state of affairs,
> but from here I cannot see a way of sorting out the problem, which is as follows
> (as I see it):
> 
> 1. the inst/NEWS.Rd file contains the required dates;
> 2. when the package is built and installed, the dates do not show, specifically by
>     help(package="sn”), followed by a click on “Package NEWS;
> 3. I do not know how to control the proper translation from Rd to HTML.
> 
> So the specific question is: how can I enforce the presence on the dates show by
>   help(package="sn”) + click on “Package NEWS ?

Currently you cannot, as the code that translates to html does not 
handle the dates. We will discuss this.

Best,
Uwe


> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Adelchi
> 
> 
>> On 29 Aug 2022, at 12:36, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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