spatstat (version 1.62-2)

latest.news: Print News About Latest Version of Package

Description

Prints the news documentation for the current version of spatstat or another specified package.

Usage

latest.news(package = "spatstat", doBrowse=FALSE, major=TRUE)

Arguments

package

Name of package for which the latest news should be printed.

doBrowse

Logical value indicating whether to display the results in a browser window instead of printing them.

major

Logical value. If TRUE (the default), print all information for the current major version "x.y". If FALSE, print only the information for the current minor version "x.y-z".

Value

Null.

Details

This function prints the news documentation about changes in the current installed version of the spatstat package.

The function can be called simply by typing its name without parentheses (see the Examples).

If major=FALSE, only information for the current minor version "x.y-z" will be printed. If major=TRUE (the default), all information for the current major version "x.y" will be printed, encompassing versions "x.y-0", "x.y-1", up to "x.y-z".

If package is given, then the function reads the news for the specified package from its NEWS file (if it has one) and prints only the entries that refer to the current version of the package.

To see the news for all previous versions as well as the current version, use the R utility news. See the Examples.

See Also

news, bugfixes

Examples

# NOT RUN {
  if(interactive()) {

    # current news
    latest.news

    # all news
    news(package="spatstat")

  }
# }