ChangeLog: Parse GNU/Emacs-style ChangeLog File

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Parse GNU/Emacs-style ChangeLog File

Description

Read and parse an Emacs ChangeLog file.

Usage

ChangeLog(file)

Arguments

file	character. The path to the ChangeLog file.

Details

The function is not very lenient: it expects the standard format.

Value

A list of lists; each ‘inner’ list contains information about an entry

date	entry date
author	the name of the author
email	the email address of the author
txt	the actual txt

Author(s)

Enrico Schumann

References

GNU coding standards http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs

GNU coding standards http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Change-Log

Examples

## Not run: 
file <- "http://enricoschumann.net/R/packages/NMOF/ChangeLog"
ChangeLog(file)

## End(Not run)

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