[R-pkg-devel] Possible mis-spelled words ...
Hi all, I had a quick look through the tools package, but was unable to find the function that checks the DESCRIPTION file. From the look of the functions I did examine, it looks like there will be a call somewhere to a spell checker for DESCRIPTION. As I notice a lot of spelling mistakes in the help files, spell checking is probably not done for most files (or maintainers ignore the notes). Perhaps an argument to turn off spell checking (--nospell) might solve the problem as misspelling of a crucial word would throw an error regardless. Jim
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On 22/07/16 10:34, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 21/07/2016 5:48 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
I just had a revision of a package built by win-builder, as a way of exposing it to a rigorous check before uploading it to CRAN. The 00check.log contained the note:
> Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION: > Delaunay (4:8, 10:29) > Voronoi (4:46, 11:5) > triangulations (12:28)
The spellings are, as far as I can tell correct. Is there a way of telling the package checker that these spellings are OK?
You can put them in single quotes, and the spell checker won't check them. Of course, that would make your DESCRIPTION look like crap. You'll just have to throw yourself on the mercy of the CRAN judges.
Thanks Duncan. May the judges be merciful! :-) cheers, Rolf -- Technical Editor ANZJS Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276
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