[R-pkg-devel] Spelling and manual CRAN inspection

[John Harrold]

I have a list of words, acronyms and initialisms that commonly get flagged
as misspelled words when I submit updates. I generally just put an
explanation for each one in the "optional comment" section of the
submission form. It's pretty simple and seems to work out well.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:08 AM Kevin R. Coombes <kevin.r.coombes using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I have been updating a couple of R packages this morning. One of them
> triggered a manual inspection for "possibly mis-spelled words in
> DESCRIPTION" for my last name (Coombes) --- even though none of the
> other 20 packages that I maintain has ever triggered that particular
> NOTE. A second package also triggered a manual inspection for
> mis-spelled words including "Proteomics". (These flags only arose on the
> debian CRAN machine, not the Windows CRAN machine, and not on my home
> machines. And let's ignore how many spelling corrections I had to make
> while typing this email)
>
> *My question, however, is: why should this NOTE ever trigger a manual
> inspection?* That makes more work for the CRAN maintainers, who I am
> sure have better things to do than evaluate spelling. Anything that
> would actually stop the package from working (mis-spelling a keyword, or
> mis-spelling the name of package that is imported) is going to cause an
> automatic ERROR and a rejection of the submission without making more
> work for the CRAN maintainers. The other mis-spellings may reflect
> poorly on the package author, but since they are NOTEs, it is easy
> enough to get them fixed for the next round without making human
> eyeballs look at them.
>
> Best,
>     Kevin
>
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-- 
John
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