Bug#884115: Retitle ITP (Was: RFP: r-cran-rmarkdown -- GNU R tool to convert R Markdown documents into a variety of formats)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Control: retitle -1 IPP: r-cran-rmarkdown -- GNU R tool to convert R Markdown documents into a variety of formats
Control: owner -1 !

I'll take it since I'm quite used to CRAN packages.

Thanks for checking snakemake rdepends

     Andreas.

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 04:14:46PM +0100, chrysn wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : r-cran-rmarkdown
>   Version         : 1.8
>   Upstream Author : JJ Allaire, Yihui Xie et al
> * URL             : http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com,
>                     https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rmarkdown/index.html
> * License         : GPL-3
>   Programming Lang: GNU R
>   Description     : GNU R tool to convert R Markdown documents into a variety of formats
> 
> R Markdown is a framework for creating documents that mix R code with
> markdown to produce visually pleasing, high quality and reproducible
> reports. It supports various output formats, including HTML, PDF,
> Microsoft Word and Beamer.
> 
> ---
> 
> The package is a soft reverse build dependency of Snakemake (which is
> currently patched to not execute the test in its test suite that depends
> on rmarkdown), and a quick search shows that other R packages in the
> archive could interact with it as well (eg. r-cran-fitbitscraper
> suggests it).
> 
> There is already the r-cran-markdown package whose description
> acknowledges rmarkdown as a "newer and enhanced version of this markdown
> package".



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