[R-pkg-devel] Nickname allowed in description when submitting to CRAN?

[Bernd.Gruber]

Hi,
I know that sounds like a useless feature, but it happens that people are better in recognising names than numbers.

And here is the question. I read in some stackexchange answers that it is possible to add the keyword

Nickname:

to the description file. It works fine when I check the package but winbuilder comes back with a note:

Unknown, possibly misspelled, fields in DESCRIPTION:
  'Nickname'

So the question is, is there a way to have a nickname for a version of an R package and if so, how would that be done.

Thanks in advance


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