newsmd (version 0.5.1)

newsmd: Creating a NEWS.md file

Description

This is a convenience wrapper for news$new(). If you already have a NEWS file you can add it's path to newsmd().

Usage

newsmd(
  file = NULL,
  text = c(paste0("## version ", version), "", "---", "", "### NEWS.md setup", "",
    "- added NEWS.md creation with [newsmd](https://github.com/Dschaykib/newsmd)", ""),
  version = "0.0.0.9000"
)

Arguments

file

name of the NEWS file to load. If not given a new file NEWS.md is created.

text

a character scalar containing the initial text.

version

a character with the version in the format major.minor.patch.dev.

Details

This functions creates a news object, which can be saved as the NEWS.md file with the internal method write(). One can add versions, subtitles and bullet points to the news.

If an existing NEWS.md file is given, the version is extracted with get_version and the dev part is bumped up.

Examples

newsmd()