Hi Henrik,
   My fault, we had some problems that were mis-diagnosed as being related
to quotes in do.call (there are some issues with quoted names in packages
with name spaces but not for do.call) and we wanted to fix all packages,
there was some discussion of this on the list, I can dig up the reference if
you would like).  Quotes are not needed, and if present should be fine.
   We don't really want to do that, and only take that step when we believe
that it is essential - unfortunately we were wrong this time.  We can back
it out if you would like.

   Perhaps not the best place to announce, but we are also going around
fixing up man pages for folks.  As some of you may know, from R-devel, the
set of warning messages about broken man pages has suddenly gotten large.
Most are very easy to fix, and we are doing those, and letting package
authors know about ones where the intent is not clear, so that they can fix
them.  In most cases the existing man page did not render correctly (seems
that no one noticed) so the fix is of some importance.

We are not fixing anything in release (even though it is now giving more
warnings too) and don't recommend that authors do (they can if they want).
My opinion is that R should not have changed in that fashion in a dot
release, but others have different views.

  best wishes
    Robert


On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb@stat.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> In my aroma.light package I noticed a change (in the devel) on Dec 16,
> 2008 "removed quotes from do.call" done by "n.gopalakrishnan".  Then I
> noticed that many other packages was modified the same.  Why was this
> done?  Did I miss an announcement/request about this?
>
> /Henrik
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