[R-pkg-devel] Problem with NEWS file

[Thierry Denoeux]

I had overlooked these new specifications for the NEWS file. Thank you very much!
Thierry
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Prof. Thierry Denoeux
Université de technologie de Compiègne
Institut universitaire de France
Rue Roger Couttolenc, CS 60319
60203 Compiègne cedex, France
https://www.hds.utc.fr/~tdenoeux

> Le 7 janv. 2023 à 15:20, Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 15:02:18 +0700
> Thierry Denoeux <thierry.denoeux using utc.fr> wrote:
> 
>> The NEWS file is a text file created by TextEdit on Mac with UTF-8
>> encoding, so I don’t see how there could be hidden special characters
>> in it.
> 
> The problem is that the NEWS files are supposed to have a certain
> format (documented in help(news)). For a long time, this hasn't been
> enforced, but now there are checks in place that require NEWS to be
> written to specifications.
> 
> I think that your line can be transformed as follows in order to parse
> correctly:
> 
> Changes in version 2.0.0
> 
> * Implementation of radial basis function neural network classifiers,
>   as well as functions to express the outputs of trained logistic
>   regression or feed-forward neural network classifiers as
>   Dempster-Shafer mass functions. These methods are based on an
>   interpretation of the operations performed in neural networks as the
>   combination of weights of evidence by Dempster's rule (see: "T.
>   Denoeux, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks and Dempster-Shafer
>   Theory: a New Perspective. Knowledge-Based Systems 176:54-67, 2019").
> 
> You can also write an inst/NEWS.Rd file in Rd format.
> 
> As you can see from reading ?news, it is preferred to provide a
> bulleted list of the changes.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Ivan


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