On 07 Jul 2015, at 16:52 , Max Kuhn mxk...@gmail.com wrote:
What are we trying to fix?
Two things, actually.
(1) An error message that sends the package developer on a wild goose chase,
because it is both out of sync both with what is wanted, and what is checked
for.
(2) The
; Federico Calboli; peter dalgaard
Subject: Re: [R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:19 AM, John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote:
Dear Peter,
You're correct that these examples aren't verb phrases (though the
second
one contains a verb phrase). I don't want
Dear Peter,
You're correct that these examples aren't verb phrases (though the second one
contains a verb phrase). I don't want to make the discussion even more pedantic
(moving it in this direction was my fault), but Paragraph isn't quite right,
unless explained, because conventionally a
...except that there is not necessarily a verb either. What we're looking for
is something like advertisement style as in
UGLY MUGS 7.95.
An invaluable addition to your display cabinet. Comes in an assortment of warts
and wrinkles, crafted by professional artist Foo Yung.
However, I'm
In line below
On 07/07/2015 11:20, peter dalgaard wrote:
...except that there is not necessarily a verb either. What we're looking for is
something like advertisement style as in
UGLY MUGS 7.95.
An invaluable addition to your display cabinet. Comes in an assortment of warts
and wrinkles,
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:19 AM, John Fox j...@mcmaster.ca wrote:
Dear Peter,
You're correct that these examples aren't verb phrases (though the second
one contains a verb phrase). I don't want to make the discussion even more
pedantic (moving it in this direction was my fault), but Paragraph
On 7 Jul 2015, at 01:12, peter dalgaard pda...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06 Jul 2015, at 23:19 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/07/2015 5:09 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 07/07/15 07:10, William Dunlap wrote:
[Rolf Turner wrote.]
The CRAN guidelines should be rewritten
On 07/07/15 07:10, William Dunlap wrote:
[Rolf Turner wrote.]
The CRAN guidelines should be rewritten so that they say what they *mean*.
If a complete sentence is not actually required --- and it seems abundantly
clear
that it is not --- then guidelines should not say so. Rather they should
On 06/07/2015 5:09 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 07/07/15 07:10, William Dunlap wrote:
[Rolf Turner wrote.]
The CRAN guidelines should be rewritten so that they say what they *mean*.
If a complete sentence is not actually required --- and it seems abundantly
clear
that it is not --- then
The CRAN guidelines should be rewritten so that they say what they *mean*.
If a complete sentence is not actually required --- and it seems
abundantly clear
that it is not --- then guidelines should not say so. Rather they should
say,
clearly and comprehensibly, what actually *is* required.
On 06 Jul 2015, at 23:19 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/07/2015 5:09 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 07/07/15 07:10, William Dunlap wrote:
[Rolf Turner wrote.]
The CRAN guidelines should be rewritten so that they say what they *mean*.
If a complete sentence is not
Dear Peter,
I think that the grammatical term you're looking for is verb phrase.
Best,
John
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 00:12:25 +0200
peter dalgaard pda...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06 Jul 2015, at 23:19 , Duncan Murdoch murdoch.dun...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/07/2015 5:09 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
A couple of pointers:
(a) R-package-devel exists and is right -- thataway
(b) R is open source, and QC.R is pretty easy to find. Reading the source, it
appears that the check is only for whether the Description: field is terminated
by punctuation, possibly followed by a quote.
(c) I'd try
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 11:09:54 +0300
Federico Calboli federico.calb...@helsinki.fi wrote:
Hi All,
I am upgrading a package for CRAN, and I get this note:
checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
Malformed Description field: should contain one or more complete
sentences.
This is
On 05/07/15 01:09, mxkuhn wrote:
SNIP
Whenever I find a new rule or test with R CMD check, I tell myself
that it must be there because of some previous issue, i.e. they
probably had a good reason. I can't imagine what damage an incomplete
sentence caused beyond a bruised aura.
Fortune
I encountered this a few months ago and, in my case, the sentence had a noun
and verb but lacked a period at the end of the sentence. I tested that 'blah
blah blah.' would have passed in that version of R-devel.
Whenever I find a new rule or test with R CMD check, I tell myself that it must
That exists already: last slide here — it looks like it is a know issue.
BW
F
On 3 Jul 2015, at 14:13, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote:
In that case, you need to create a minimal reproducible example and make it
publicly available.
Hadley
On Friday, July 3, 2015,
On 3 Jul 2015, at 12:14, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com wrote:
It might be a line break problem - I think you want:
Description: Functions designed to test for single gene/phenotype
association and
for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data.
Tried this and unfortunately it does
constitutes a 'complete sentence'?
In that case, you need to create a minimal reproducible example and
make it publicly available.
Hadley
On Friday, July 3, 2015, Federico Calboli
federico.calb...@helsinki.fi
wrote:
On 3 Jul 2015, at 12:14, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com
On 03/07/15 20:09, Federico Calboli wrote:
Hi All,
I am upgrading a package for CRAN, and I get this note:
checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE Malformed Description
field: should contain one or more complete sentences.
This is puzzling because:
cat DESCRIPTION
... Description:
.
Cheers
Petr
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Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 1:14 PM
To: Federico Calboli
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Subject: Re: [R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?
In that case, you need to create
Sigh, how natural it is to say This package ..., but you probably
don't know a package can be easily rejected by CRAN simply because of
this phrase This package (it has been clearly stated in the R-exts
manual).
I don't think the grammar is the problem here. When in doubt, I always
check what
On 04/07/2015 12:26 AM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 04/07/15 06:27, Yihui Xie wrote:
Sigh, how natural it is to say This package ..., but you probably
don't know a package can be easily rejected by CRAN simply because of
this phrase This package (it has been clearly stated in the R-exts
manual).
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 1:14 PM
To: Federico Calboli
Cc: R-help
Subject: Re: [R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?
In that case, you need to create a minimal reproducible example and
make it publicly available.
Hadley
On Friday, July 3, 2015, Federico Calboli
federico.calb
On 04/07/15 06:27, Yihui Xie wrote:
Sigh, how natural it is to say This package ..., but you probably
don't know a package can be easily rejected by CRAN simply because of
this phrase This package (it has been clearly stated in the R-exts
manual).
Urrr! I *did* know that, but had
Hi All,
I am upgrading a package for CRAN, and I get this note:
checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
Malformed Description field: should contain one or more complete sentences.
This is puzzling because:
cat DESCRIPTION
...
Description: Functions designed to test for single
It might be a line break problem - I think you want:
Description: Functions designed to test for single gene/phenotype
association and
for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data.
Hadley
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Federico Calboli
federico.calb...@helsinki.fi wrote:
Hi All,
I am
In that case, you need to create a minimal reproducible example and make it
publicly available.
Hadley
On Friday, July 3, 2015, Federico Calboli federico.calb...@helsinki.fi
wrote:
On 3 Jul 2015, at 12:14, Hadley Wickham h.wick...@gmail.com
javascript:; wrote:
It might be a line break
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