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Extract release version and release notes from NEWS.md.

Usage

get_release(pkg = ".", filename = "NEWS.md")

Arguments

pkg

path to package. Currently, only pkg = "." is supported.

filename

name of file containing release notes, defaults to NEWS.md.

Value

list containing the package, version and release notes from the first release contained in NEWS.md

Details

get_release() assumes that NEWS.md contains markdown release notes, with each release header of the format: "# <package> <version>" followed by the release notes, and expects the first line of NEWS.md to be a release header.