On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > Hi, > > is it ok to have more than one period in a package name, e.g. > aroma.light.bioc? > > I remember there was once a limitation/a recommendation that one > should use at most one period in a package name. I just browsed > "Writing R Extensions" (for R v2.4.1) and scanned it for words > "period" and "dot", and I cannot find this limitation anymore, but > only:
It was dropped a while back: from src/gnuwin32/CHANGES for 2.3.0 The restriction on the number of dots in a package name (which stemmed from an undocumented restriction in ld.exe) has been worked around. > "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. [...]" -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
