R CMD check fails if Depends field includes a package with a `.' in it (PR#1591)

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> a296180  writes:

> R CMD check fails when the Depends field in the DESCRIPTION file includes a
> single package with `.' in the name.

> * checking for file 'financials/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> * checking package directory ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION Package field ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION Version field ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION License field ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION Description field ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION Title field ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION Author field ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION Maintainer field ... OK
> * checking DESCRIPTION Depends field ... ERROR
> Malformed Depends field.
> See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R packages'
> of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
> mica|tmp> 

> Assuming that `.' is allowed in a package name (there are two such packages on
> CRAN and I could find nothing to the contrary in Writing R Extensions), the
> following line in check should be changed from:

> $dep =~ /^\s*(\w+)(\s*\(([^) ]+)\s+([^) ]+)\))?\s*$/;

> to:

> $dep =~ /^\s*([\w\.]+)(\s*\(([^) ]+)\s+([^) ]+)\))?\s*$/;	

> that is, (\w+) becomes ([\w\.]+) in order to match names that have a
> `.'. Thanks to David Brahm for suggesting this fix.

Thanks.  Fixed.

-k
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