[R-pkg-devel] note about mispelled words

[Peter Dalgaard]

However, notice that if it is the guy from the Kruskal-Wallis test (William K., 1919--2005), the "Kruskall" is in fact misspelt. It might be someone else, of course...

-pd

> On 17 Mar 2020, at 18:24 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe it is also acceptable to explain in your submission message that the misspelled words are all proper names.  As far as I know, misspellings are not enough of a problem to cause an automatic rejection, so a human being will be making a judgment about the note.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> On 17/03/2020 11:41 a.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> You can single quote them to avoid them being spell checked, e.g. ...
>> using methods of 'Kruskall' and 'Brainerd'.  This is a common and
>> accepted practice.
>> This is hinted at in "Writing R Extensions" (e.g. help.start());
>> The mandatory ‘Description’ field should give a comprehensive
>> description of what the package does. One can use several (complete)
>> sentences, but only one paragraph. It should be intelligible to all
>> the intended readership (e.g. for a CRAN package to all CRAN users).
>> It is good practice not to start with the package name, ‘This package’
>> or similar. As with the ‘Title’ field, double quotes should be used
>> for quotations (including titles of books and articles), and single
>> quotes for non-English usage, including names of other packages and
>> external software. This field should also be used for explaining the
>> package name if necessary. URLs should be enclosed in angle brackets,
>> e.g. ‘<https://www.r-project.org>’: see also Specifying URLs.
>> /Henrik
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:30 AM Gianmarco Alberti
>> <gianmarcoalberti using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> I am checking a package of mine, and I got only 1 note regarding possibly misspelled words in the DESCRIPTION.
>>> 
>>> The issue I am facing is that those 6 words are not actually misspelled, being either first or last names of individuals (actually, statistician; e.g., Kruskall, Brainerd).
>>> 
>>> Shall I have to do something (removing those; which does not make sense), or upon submitting my new version of the package there is a way to make clear that that note can be ignored?
>>> 
>>> By the way, those names were already there in earlier versions of the package and no note cropped out in those occasions.
>>> 
>>> Thank you
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