[R-pkg-devel] Misspelled words in DESCRIPTION

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 19/08/2019 6:13 p.m., John Harrold wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am attempting to submit my first package to CRAN. I believe I've
> successfully gotten rid of all the notes, but there is one that I'm unable
> to eliminate. In the DESCRIPTION file in both the Title and Description
> fields I use the term PKPD. This stands for Pharmacokinetics and
> Pharmacodynamics. 

As others have said, you just need to give a note explaining that it is 
a false positive.  But please do give the full version once in the 
Description:  it won't only be PKPD experts who read about your package. 
  (You could give it in the title, but that is likely to make your title 
too long.)

Duncan Murdoch


It seems that none of these are recognized as words that
> are spelled correctly. They are kind of important in the context of the
> package and there are no other better or more accurate descriptors that I
> can use.
> 
> Is there a way to get around this?
>