added Support to READNE, removed Gmane ref from FAQ

Author: eddelbuettel

ChangeLog

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 2018-01-21  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
 
-        * vignettes/Rcpp-FAQ.Rmd (vignette): Uppercase index to 'Rcpp-FAQ'
+        * README.md: Added new section 'Support'
+
+        * vignettes/Rcpp-FAQ.Rmd (vignette): Uppercase index to 'Rcpp-FAQ';
+        removed reference to Gmane which sadly is no more
 
 2018-01-19  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
 
@@ -10,7 +13,7 @@
 2018-01-16  Dirk Eddelbuettel  <[email protected]>
 
         * DESCRIPTION: Release 0.12.15
-        * inst/NEWS.Rd: Release 0.12.15
+        * inst/NEWS.Rd: Release 0.12.15 
         * inst/bib/Rcpp.bib: Release 0.12.15
         * vignettes/Rcpp.bib: Release 0.12.15
         * inst/include/Rcpp/config.h: Release 0.12.15

README.md

@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ there are 1092 [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org) packages using Rcpp, a further
 as well as an unknown number of GitHub, Bitbucket, R-Forge, ... repositories
 using Rcpp.  All these packages provide usage examples for Rcpp.
 
-
 ### Installation
 
 Released and tested versions of Rcpp are available via the
@@ -86,6 +85,25 @@ environment for R as discussed in the relevant documentation; also see
 questions 1.2 and 1.3 in the
 [Rcpp-FAQ](https://cran.r-project.org/package=Rcpp/vignettes/Rcpp-FAQ.pdf).
 
+### Support
+
+The best place for questions is the
+[Rcpp-devel](https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel)
+mailing list hosted at R-forge.  Note that in order to keep spam down, you must
+be a subscriber in order to post.  One can also consult the list archives to see
+if your question has been asked before.
+
+Another option is to use
+[StackOverflow and its 'rcpp' tag](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rcpp).
+Search functionality (use `[rcpp] my question terms` to tag
+the query) is very valuable as many questions have indeed been asked, and
+answered, before.
+
+The [issue tickets at the GitHub repo](https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issues)
+are the primary bug reporting interface.  As with the other web resources,
+previous issues can be searched as well.
+
+
 ### Authors
 
 Dirk Eddelbuettel, Romain Francois, JJ Allaire, Kevin Ushey, Qiang Kou,

cleanup

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/bash
 
 #cd inst/doc && rm -f index.html *.tex *.bbl *.blg *.aux *.out *.log && cd -
 

inst/NEWS.Rd

@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@
 \newcommand{\ghpr}{\href{https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/pull/#1}{##1}}
 \newcommand{\ghit}{\href{https://github.com/RcppCore/Rcpp/issues/#1}{##1}}
 
+\section{Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.16 (2018-03-xx)}{
+  \itemize{
+    \item Changes in Rcpp Documentation:
+    \itemize{
+      \item The Rcpp FAQ vignette is now indexed as `Rcpp-FAQ`; a stale Gmane
+      reference was removed and entry for getting compilers under Conda was added.
+      \item The top-level README.md now has a _Support_ section.
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 \section{Changes in Rcpp version 0.12.15 (2018-01-16)}{
   \itemize{
     \item Changes in Rcpp API:

vignettes/Rcpp-FAQ.Rmd

@@ -1250,9 +1250,8 @@ mailing list hosting at R-forge contains an archive, which can be
 [searched via swish](http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/mailman/swish.cgi?query=listname=rcpp-devel).
 
 Alternatively, one can also use
-[Gmane on Rcpp-devel](http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.rcpp/) as well as
 [Mail-Archive on Rcpp-devel](http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/info.html)
-both of which offer web-based interfaces, including searching.
+which offers web-based interfaces, including searching.
 
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