[R-pkg-devel] Possible mis-spelled words ...

[Ben Bolker]

Previous conversation on r-devel:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2014-December/070237.html

Martin Mächler suggests that a patch to R-devel would be welcome:

> I agree that some customization possibility would be great here.
> Maybe it'll be sufficient to allow a short list of about a dozen
> words in the DESCRIPTION itself, e.g., with an item
>
>   Extrawords: rowMedians, rowRanks


On 16-07-21 05:48 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
> 
> I just had a revision of a package built by win-builder, as a way of
> exposing it to a rigorous check before uploading it to CRAN.
> 
> The 00check.log contained the note:
> 
>> Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION:
>>   Delaunay (4:8, 10:29)
>>   Voronoi (4:46, 11:5)
>>   triangulations (12:28)
> 
> The spellings are, as far as I can tell correct.  Is there a way of
> telling the package checker that these spellings are OK?
> 
> I have a very vague recollection of having seen something about this
> topic on this mailing list, but a search of the archives turned up
> nothing.  Nor could I find anything about "mis-spellings" in "Writing R
> Extensions".
> 
> I don't like leaving a package in a state in which the package checker
> produces NOTES.  Is there anything that I can do about this one?   Other
> than remove the offending words, which I am reluctant to do.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
>