[Rd] Package names

[Hadley Wickham]

>> 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.

Oh, good point.

Hadley


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