[Rd] Periods in package names?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is it ok to have more than one period in a package name, e.g. aroma.light.bioc?
>
> I remember there was once a limitation/a recommendation that one
> should use at most one period in a package name.  I just browsed
> "Writing R Extensions" (for R v2.4.1) and scanned it for words
> "period" and "dot", and I cannot find this limitation anymore, but
> only:

It was dropped a while back: from src/gnuwin32/CHANGES for 2.3.0

   The restriction on the number of dots in a package name (which
   stemmed from an undocumented restriction in ld.exe) has been worked
   around.


> "The Package and Version fields give the name and the version of the
> package, respectively. The name should consist of letters, numbers,
> and the dot character and start with a letter. [...]"

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