| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Retrieve R Package News Files |
| Version: | 0.0.2 |
| Date: | 2021-03-12 |
| Description: | Read R package news files, regardless of whether or not the package is installed. |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: | https://github.com/owenjonesuob/pkgnews |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/owenjonesuob/pkgnews/issues |
| Imports: | utils |
| Suggests: | commonmark, httr, xml2, covr, testthat |
| SystemRequirements: | pandoc |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.1.1 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2021-03-12 16:57:01 UTC; ojones |
| Author: | Owen Jones [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Owen Jones <owenjonesuob@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2021-03-12 22:50:06 UTC |
pkgnews: Retrieve R Package News Files
Description
Read R package news files, regardless of whether or not the package is installed.
Author(s)
Maintainer: Owen Jones owenjonesuob@gmail.com
Read package news
Description
Retrieve the NEWS file of a package as a character vector.
Usage
news(package, installed_only = FALSE, allow_changelog = TRUE, width = NULL)
Arguments
package |
Character string giving the name of an R package. |
installed_only |
Only check installed packages. |
allow_changelog |
Whether to try and find a ChangeLog file if the NEWS can't be found. |
width |
An optional positive integer - see |
Value
A character vector containing the contents of the package's NEWS file
(or possibly the ChangeLog file, if allow_changelog = TRUE). An error is
thrown if no news could be found.
Examples
## Not run: news("pkgnews")