FYI: NEWS.md is not found by news()

[HenrikBengtsson]

I noticed you Markdown-ified NEWS to NEWS.md. Several packages do this and CRAN parses it and renders it in HTML online. Unfortunately, it also breaks news() who will not find it, cf. HenrikBengtsson/Wishlist-for-R#40;

> news(package = "princurve")
NULL

[HenrikBengtsson]

Maybe it's possible to have a copy NEWS of NEWS.md and keep both under inst/.

[rcannood]

Thanks for bringing this up.

I noticed this too, but preferred to have the news more legible on GitHub than have it work with news(). Although you're right, there's no reason why I shouldn't make both work.

What do you think about this solution? feature/improve_news (Diff). Would this be the most useful solution for both users and developers?

By the way, I really like Wishlist-for-R 👍 I wish more issues were closed, though.

[HenrikBengtsson]

Thanks. I think it's important to support news() - this looks like a nice workaround.

PS. Yeah, there are a few things that can/should be fixed in that Wishlist-for-R. I'm and others are adding things there as they are discovered and eventually the issues mature and can be turned into a solid bug report/patch that R core can take quick action on.