getPackageNEWS: Retrieve and print package NEWS
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getPackageNEWS

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Retrieve and print package NEWS

Description

These functions visit two Bioconductor releases, identifying packages that are present in the ‘current’ repository and have NEWS since the base version of the same package in the ‘previous’ release. All NEWS is reported for packages only in the current repository.

Usage

getPackageNEWS(prevRepos="3.6",
	       currRepos="3.7",
	       repo=c("bioc", "data/experiment", "workflows"),
	       srcdir = NULL)
printNEWS(dbs, destfile, overwrite = FALSE, width = 68,
	  output=c("md", "text"), relativeLink=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

`prevRepos`	`character(1)` Bioconductor version from which NEWS starts.
`currRepos`	`character(1)` Bioconductor version for current packages.
`repo`	`character(1)` Which repository to get NEWS for. bioc is software packages, data/experiment is for data experiment packages and workflows for workflow packages
`srcdir`	Path to local checkout of package repositories, if NULL will try and use files on main builders
`dbs`	A list of `news_db` elements, as returned by `getPackageNEWS`.
`destfile`	`character(1)` file path to the location where NEWS will be printed.
`overwrite`	`logical(1)` indicating whether `destfile` can be over-written, if it exists.
`width`	`numeric(1)` number of characters news items are to be wrapped to, excluding indent.
`output`	`character(1)` output to text or markdown format.
`relativeLink`	Should links to packages be relative links on bioconductor.org website or include full url 'https//bioconductor.org'. default: FALSE is full url.
`...`	additional arguments, unused.