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In imanuelcostigan/pkgnews: Access Package NEWS files

pkgnews

The goal of pkgnews is to make it easier to view package all the main types of NEWS files used by package maintainers including the following: NEWS, NEWS.md or NEWS.markdown and inst/NEWS.Rd files. At present the first and second is supported by utils::news(). However, NEWS.md files cannot be as parsimoniously read.

This package provides show_pkg_news() that wraps utils::news() in the cases where this works and supports NEWS.md files in a similarly parsimonious fashion. It also provides a shortcut to access a Github hosted package's release page where the Github URL is listed in its DESCRIPTION file.

Install

This isn't on CRAN. You can install this from Github directly:

ghit::install_github("imanuelcostigan/pkgnews")

Example

## NEWS
show_pkg_news("curl")

## inst/NEWS.Rd
show_pkg_news("Rcpp")

## NEWS.md
show_pkg_news("dplyr")

## Github release page
show_pkg_news("dplyr", gh_release = TRUE)

imanuelcostigan/pkgnews documentation built on May 20, 2019, 7 p.m.