| Type: | Package |
| Title: | Convert NEWS File to RSS Feed |
| Version: | 0.9-4 |
| Date: | 2022-10-08 |
| Description: | Utilities to convert the NEWS file of an installed package to an RSS feed. |
| Maintainer: | Enrico Schumann <es@enricoschumann.net> |
| Imports: | datetimeutils, stats, textutils, utils |
| Suggests: | digest |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| URL: | http://enricoschumann.net/R/packages/NEWSRSS/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2024-04-07 16:33:22 UTC; es19 |
| Author: | Enrico Schumann 
[aut, cre] |
| Built: | R 4.5.0; ; 2024-04-07 16:33:22 UTC; unix |
Parse GNU/Emacs-style ChangeLog File
Description
Read and parse an Emacs ChangeLog file.
Usage
ChangeLog(file)
Arguments
file |
character. The path to the ChangeLog file. |
Details
The function is not very lenient: it expects the standard format.
Value
A list of lists; each ‘inner’ list contains information about an entry
date |
entry date |
author |
the name of the author |
email |
the email address of the author |
txt |
the actual txt |
Author(s)
Enrico Schumann
References
GNU coding standards http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs
GNU coding standards http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Change-Log
Examples
## Not run:
file <- "http://enricoschumann.net/R/packages/NMOF/ChangeLog"
ChangeLog(file)
## End(Not run)
Convert NEWS File to RSS Feed
Description
Convert package NEWS file to RSS items.
Usage
news_to_rss(package, file = NULL,
guid = function(version, date, ...)
paste0(package, "_", version, "_", date),
link,
guid.digest = FALSE,
guid.isPermaLink = FALSE,
...)
rss_feed(items, title, description, language,
link, atom.href, copyright)
Arguments
package |
character |
file |
character |
guid |
a function: the first two arguments are the version and date as specified in the NEWS file |
link |
character. For |
items |
character. The items of the feed, in XML markup. |
title |
character |
description |
character |
language |
character |
copyright |
character |
atom.href |
character. See http://www.rssboard.org/rss-profile#namespace-elements-atom-link |
guid.digest |
logical: use digest package to compute guid? |
guid.isPermaLink |
logical |
... |
more arguments |
Details
Converts the NEWS file of an R package and converts the NEWS entries into an RSS feed (i.e. XML format).
Value
character vector
Author(s)
Enrico Schumann
See Also
Examples
out.file <- tempfile()
require("NEWSRSS")
copyright <- "Copyright 2015, Enrico Schumann"
title <- "NMOF – Numerical Methods and Optimization in Finance"
link <- "http://enricoschumann.net/R/packages/NMOF/"
description <- "News about package NMOF"
language <- "en-gb"
atom.href <- "http://enricoschumann.net/R/packages/NMOF/NMOF_news.xml"
cat(rss_feed(news_to_rss("NMOF", link = link), title, description,
language, link, atom.href, copyright),
file = out.file)
## pretty print with 'xmllint'
## system("xmllint -o ~/ESdotnet/R/packages/NMOF/NMOF_news.xml --format ~/tmp/NMOF_news.xml")