close #1269: increase R version dependency

yihui · Aug 13, 2016 · 866758e · 866758e
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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Maintainer: Yihui Xie <xie@yihui.name>
 Description: Provides a general-purpose tool for dynamic report generation in R
     using Literate Programming techniques.
 Depends:
-    R (> 3.0.2)
+    R (>= 3.1.0)
 Imports:
     evaluate (>= 0.8),
     digest,

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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+# CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.15 (unreleased)
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+## MAJOR CHANGES
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+- the minimal version of R required for **knitr** is 3.1.0 now (#1269)
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 # CHANGES IN knitr VERSION 1.14
 
 ## NEW FEATURES