Bug#823381: ITP: r-cran-markdown -- GNU R package providing R bindings to the Sundown Markdown rendering library

[Andreas Tille]

Closing this ITP again since it was just issued as #813481

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 08:27:12AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : r-cran-markdown
>   Version         : 0.7.7
>   Upstream Author :  Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name>
> * URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/markdown
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: R
>   Description     : GNU R package providing R bindings to the Sundown Markdown rendering library
>  Provides R bindings to the Sundown Markdown rendering library by
>  Vicent Marti
>  e.a., based upon work by Natacha Porté. Markdown is a plain-text
>      formatting syntax that can be converted to XHTML or other formats.
>  .
>  The R function `markdownToHTML` renders a markdown file to HTML. Options
>  controlling HTML output and supported markdown extensions can be
>  optionally specified.
>  .
>  The package also exports the underlying Sundown C extension API which
>  enables creating and calling custom renderers using the
>  `renderMarkdown` function.
>  .
>  Please note: the rmarkdown package (with leading r) converts R Markdown
>  documents into even more formats, by using pandoc; the CRAN rmarkdown
>  package is a newer and enhanced version of this markdown package.
> 
> 
> Remark: This package was prepared by Joost van Baal-Ili for the Debian
> Science team as a predependency for r-cran-knitr.  It will be team
> maintained at
>     https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-markdown.git
> 
> 

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