These functions visit two repository PACKAGE files, identifying packages that are present in the current repository and have NEWS since the base version of the same package in the previous repository. All NEWS is reported for packages only in the current repository.
getPackageNEWS(prevRepos="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.10/bioc", currRepos="http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc", srcDir)
printNEWS(dbs, destfile, overwrite = FALSE, width = 68, output=c("md", "text"), ...)
character(1)
repository from which NEWS starts.character(1)
repository of current packages.character(1)
directory containing the source all
current pacakgesnews_db
elements, as returned by
getPackageNEWS
.character(1)
file path to the location where
NEWS will be printed.logical(1)
indicating whether destfile
can be over-written, if it exists.numeric(1)
number of characters news items are to
be wrapped to, excluding indent.character(1)
output to text or markdown format.news_db
files, as returned by utils::news
,
for each package for which relevant NEWS is available.