>>>>> "petrakl" == petrakl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:10:46 +0100 (CET) writes:
petrakl> Full_Name: L. Petrák
petrakl> Version: 2.2
petrakl> OS: w2k
petrakl> Submission from: (NULL) (193.109.177.11)
petrakl> # rcmd build Translation-it
petrakl> * checking for file 'Translation-it/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
petrakl> * preparing 'Translation-it':
petrakl> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR
petrakl> Malformed package name
petrakl> See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating R
petrakl> packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual.
if you do what this error message tells you,
you should quickly find
>> The `Package' and `Version' fields give the name and the version of
>> the package, respectively. The name should consist of letters,
>> numbers, and the dot character and start with a letter. ...............
Hence it's clear that the character "-" is not allowed in a
package name.
So why do you think this is a bug ?
petrakl> =====
petrakl> char "-" is not alowed in package name (bug in
petrakl> 'build' script or 'utils.R' or 'manuals/R-ext')
Regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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