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

[Rolf Turner]

On 22/07/16 10:37, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> On 22.07.2016 00:34, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 21/07/2016 5:48 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?
>>
>> You can put them in single quotes, and the spell checker won't check
>> them.  Of course, that would make your DESCRIPTION look like crap.
>
> Indeed, the idea is to have software names in single quotes etc., see
> WRE, but names of persons should be fine as they are.

Well "Delaunay" and "Voronoi" are person's names, nicht wahr?  But they 
seem not to be fine.  Not sure why the checker objects to 
"triangulations" --- but so does the "spell" utility on my Linux box, 
although it happily accepts the singular "triangulation".

<SNIP>

> And let me point out that patches are still welcome....

I would offer to provide a patch, but this is beyond my realm of competence.

cheers,

Rolf

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