[Rd] Package names

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> Hadley Wickham writes:

> Currently, writing R extensions states: "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. "

> Now that _ is no longer an assignment operator, could it be added to
> this list?

This would make it trickier to parse PACKAGE_VERSION.tar.gz et al file
names, and break lots of code based on this naming scheme.

-k

> Hadley

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