[R-pkg-devel] Misspelled words in descrition and tar.gz inside folder

[Uwe Ligges]

On 09.08.2022 22:38, Edward Wei wrote:
> Hello. Here is my "NOTE" message.
> 
> * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE
> Maintainer: ‘Edward Wei <edwwei2020 using gmail.com>’
> 
> New submission
> 
> Possibly misspelled words in DESCRIPTION:
>    alphavantager (8:3, 9:7)
>    Alphavantager (7:32)
>    api (7:58, 8:36)
>    Avfintools (10:18)
>    Vantager (3:55, 10:46, 11:56)
> 
> * checking top-level files ... NOTE
> Non-standard file/directory found at top level:
>    ‘avfintools.tar.gz’
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1. My misspelled words are just referencing names of packages and
> programming terms etc. Is there a way to get around this or should I omit
> them from my description and put them somewhere else.

Software names should be single quotes in the Title and Description 
fields of the DESCRIPTION file. Other "possibly misspelled" words that 
are actually fine will be reviewed by manual inspection anyway. Just 
ignore these.


> 
> 2. I wanted to confirm this, but the tar.gz for CRAN submission SHOULD NOT
> be in the folder of the directory for my package.

No. You should submit a package created by R CMD build which will not 
generated tar.gz files within in your package structure.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

> 
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