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

[Jim Lemon]

Hi all,
I had a quick look through the tools package, but was unable to find
the function that checks the DESCRIPTION file. From the look of the
functions I did examine, it looks like there will be a call somewhere
to a spell checker for DESCRIPTION. As I notice a lot of spelling
mistakes in the help files, spell checking is probably not done for
most files (or maintainers ignore the notes). Perhaps an argument to
turn off spell checking (--nospell) might solve the problem as
misspelling of a crucial word would throw an error regardless.

Jim


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 22/07/16 10:34, 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.
>>
>> You'll just have to throw yourself on the mercy of the CRAN judges.
>
>
> Thanks Duncan.  May the judges be merciful! :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf
>
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