The show_news() function is hard-coded to check only for NEWS in a package directory:
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news_path <- path(pkg$path, "NEWS") |
However (from the docs of utils::news()):
[...] it is attempted to read its news in structured form from files ‘inst/NEWS.Rd’, ‘NEWS.md’ (since R version 3.6.0, needs packages commonmark and xml2 to be available), ‘NEWS’ or ‘inst/NEWS’ (in that order).
This means that if a NEWS.md file exists, for example, there's a confusing error:
> show_news()
Error in `show_news()`:
! No NEWS found
Run `rlang::last_error()` to see where the error occurred.
It would be nice if show_news() could use the same search path as utils::news() does.
The
show_news()function is hard-coded to check only forNEWSin a package directory:devtools/R/show-news.R
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However (from the docs of
utils::news()):This means that if a
NEWS.mdfile exists, for example, there's a confusing error:It would be nice if
show_news()could use the same search path asutils::news()does.