[R-pkg-devel] Is it possible to protect a word from the spell checker?

[Uwe Ligges]

Indeed, from Writing R Extensions:

"double quotes should be used for quotations (including titles of books 
and articles), and single quotes for non-English usage, including names 
of other packages and external software."

Best,
Uwe




On 02.03.2016 09:53, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Hana Sevcikova <hanas at uw.edu>
>>>>>>      on Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:45:34 -0800 writes:
>
>      > If it's in the DESCRIPTION file put the word into quotes.
>      > Hana
>
> Indeed, thank you Hana!
>
> To add - embarrassingly I've only learned this about a week ago -
> they need to be *single* quotes (as used 'here', they are also
> called 'apostroph') and *not* double quotes.
>
> Martin
>
>      > On 01/03/2016 08:47, Michael Dewey wrote:
>      >> The spell checker is correct they are not correctly spelled English
>      >> words but names. I searched the Writing R Extensions manual but did not
>      >> find any solution. I know it is only a NOTE not more serious.
>
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