removed escape symbol in NEWS.Rd

DESCRIPTION

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Package: spcosa
 Type: Package
 Title: Spatial Coverage Sampling and Random Sampling from Compact
         Geographical Strata
-Version: 0.4-2
-Date: 2023-04-11
+Version: 0.4-3
+Date: 2023-05-21
 Authors@R: c(
         person(
             given = "Dennis",

inst/NEWS.Rd

@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 \title{News for Package \pkg{'spcosa'}}
 
+\section{Changes in version 0.4-3 (2024-05-21)}{
+  \itemize{
+    \item Removed escaped LaTeX specials in NEWS.Rd as indicated by 'CRAN checks'
+  }
+}
+
 \section{Changes in version 0.4-2 (2023-04-11)}{
   \itemize{
     \item removed dependence on rgdal (Roger Bivand, 2023-04-10)
@@ -9,7 +15,6 @@
   }
 }
 
-
 \section{Changes in version 0.4-1 (2022-08-11)}{
   \itemize{
     \item fixed Rd-files to prevent rendering problems in the HTML version of the documentation (Kurt Hornik & Deepayan Sarkar, 2022-08-11)
@@ -134,7 +139,7 @@
   \itemize{
     \item changed code of plot-methods to prevent 'NOTES' generated by
       \code{R CMD check}: "no visible binding for global variable ..."
-    \item added doi of paper in Computer \& Geosciences to citation file
+    \item added doi of paper in Computer & Geosciences to citation file
     \item added FAQ
   }
 }