[R-pkg-devel] spell checking of the DESCRIPTION file

[Uwe Ligges]

On 17.05.2017 16:34, michel.grzebyk at inrs.fr wrote:
> The spell checking of the DESCRIPTION file of my package have issued a
> NOTE concerning authors' name of articles appearing in the "description"
> field.
> Is there a a way to fix this problem or shall I consider this NOTE as a
> false positive?
>
> I was not able to find any indication in "Writing R Extension" about how
> to include names in the "description" field.

If the spell checks have false positives, that's OK and your package 
won't be rejected.
Nevertheless, software names should be written single quotes as 
'package' and functions with parentheses as in foo().

Best,
Uwe Ligges



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