[R-pkg-devel] Problems with news in ‘NEWS’

[Spencer Graves]

On 10/13/22 4:34 AM, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> В Wed, 12 Oct 2022 20:16:20 -0500
> Spencer Graves <spencer.graves using effectivedefense.org> пишет:
> 
>> I copied NEWS to NEWS.md and tried to format it as described in:
>>
>>
>> https://r-pkgs.org/other-markdown.html#news
>>
>>
>> 	  Sadly, I still get the same error.  It seems to be ignoring
>> my NEWS.md file and continuing to tell me I haven't fixed NEWS.
> 
> Does it help to remove the NEWS after you've created NEWS.md in the
> root directory of your package? In theory, NEWS.md takes precedence
> over everything except inst/NEWS.Rd, but maybe that's not the case when
> checking the package.


Thanks.  I did that, and it worked.

> 
> For the record, both the plain text format R expects in the NEWS file
> and the Markdown format for NEWS.md are described in help(news).
> 

Thanks, I missed that reference but managed to find something that worked.


	  Spencer