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: Functions designed to test for single gene/phenotype
association and for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data. ...
In my understanding "Functions designed to test for single
gene/phenotype association and for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic
data.” *is* a complete sentence. So, what is complete sentence in
the opinion of whomever coded that check?
If that is your understanding you need to go back to school and learn
some grammar. What you have is a noun ("Functions") modified by an
adjectival clause. No verb in sight. Ergo *not* a complete sentence.
OTOH you are probably in good company in not knowing your grammar. The
CRAN folks most likely don't know grammar either. I suspect that they
*don't* actually demand a complete sentence. Such a demand would in
fact be rather pedantic. Moreover I really can't see how the package
checker could possibly check for complete sentences. This would require
some very sophisticated programming, it seems to me.
If it turns out that you *really* need a complete sentence, you could
say (for instance):
This package consists of functions designed to test for single
gene/phenotype association and for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data.
The foregoing *is* a complete sentence.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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