Re: [Rd] Fwd: suggested patch for messages

[Martin Maechler]

> Ben Bolker 
> on Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:42:10 -0400 writes:

> Any follow-up/comments on this? If I don't hear back I'll submit to
> r-bugs so it doesn't get lost ...

> (Don't see any changes in QC.R in the last few days ...
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commits/trunk/src/library/tools/R/QC.R
> )

Thank you, Ben, for the proposal and the reminder.

I agree that the message after the change is much easier to
understand, notably for people like me who are not proficient in
style of the Queen's English.

I've committed a change (74593) to R-devel where I've slightly
simplified the wording from
 "this would be:"  to
 "that is:"

and really I cannot give a rational reason why I also
changed "this" to "that"  so I'm open for another tweak from
people with better English style proficiency..

Martin


-- Forwarded message --
  From: Ben Bolker 
  Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 1:45 PM
  Subject: suggested patch for messages
  To: r-devel@r-project.org


  Does anyone have comments on the new wording here?

  Suggested:

  The Title field should be in title case. Current version is:
 (xxx)
  In title case this would be:
 (Xxx)

  Hoping R core will see this here and magically adopt it, otherwise
  I'll try posting it to the r bugs site ...

===
--- src/library/tools/R/QC.R(revision 74551)
+++ src/library/tools/R/QC.R(working copy)
@@ -7727,8 +7727,10 @@
 "The Title field starts with the package name."
 },
 if(length(y <- x$title_case)) {
-paste(c("The Title field should be in title case,
current version then in title case:",
-sQuote(y)),
+paste(c("The Title field should be in title case.
Current version is:",
+sQuote(y[1]),
+"In title case this would be:",
+sQuote(y[2])),
   collapse = "\n")
 })),
   fmt(c(if(length(x$descr_bad_initial)) {

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[Rd] Fwd: suggested patch for messages

[Ben Bolker]

Any follow-up/comments on this? If I don't hear back I'll submit to
r-bugs so it doesn't get lost ...

(Don't see any changes in QC.R in the last few days ...
https://github.com/wch/r-source/commits/trunk/src/library/tools/R/QC.R
)

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ben Bolker 
Date: Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 1:45 PM
Subject: suggested patch for messages
To: r-devel@r-project.org


Does anyone have comments on the new wording here?

Suggested:

The Title field should be in title case. Current version is:
   (xxx)
In title case this would be:
   (Xxx)

Hoping R core will see this here and magically adopt it, otherwise
I'll try posting it to the r bugs site ...

===
--- src/library/tools/R/QC.R(revision 74551)
+++ src/library/tools/R/QC.R(working copy)
@@ -7727,8 +7727,10 @@
 "The Title field starts with the package name."
 },
 if(length(y <- x$title_case)) {
-paste(c("The Title field should be in title case,
current version then in title case:",
-sQuote(y)),
+paste(c("The Title field should be in title case.
Current version is:",
+sQuote(y[1]),
+"In title case this would be:",
+sQuote(y[2])),
   collapse = "\n")
 })),
   fmt(c(if(length(x$descr_bad_initial)) {

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