Comments in the DESCRIPTION file
On 07/11/12 09:53, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 12-11-07 4:26 AM, Christophe Genolini wrote:
Hi all, Is it possible to add comments in the DESCRIPTION file?
The read.dcf function is used to read the DESCRIPTION file, and it doesn't support comments. (The current Debian control format description does appear to support comments with leading # markers, but R's read.dcf function doesn't support these.) You could probably get away with something like #: this is a comment since unrecognized fields are ignored, but I think this fact is undocumented so I would say it's safer to assume that comments are not supported.
In that form, but lots of people have fields like Note: this is a comment and CRAN uses X-CRAN-Comment: You can also add comments in Authors at R fields.
Duncan Murdoch
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