To be clear, I'd be happy to contribute code to make this work, with the changes mentioned by Duncan and elsewhere in the codebase, if someone on R-core was interested in reviewing it.
Jim On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 11:05 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/08/2019 10:31 a.m., Jim Hester wrote: > > Are there technical reasons that package names cannot be snake case? > > This seems to be enforced by `.standard_regexps()$valid_package_name` > > which currently returns > > > > "[[:alpha:]][[:alnum:].]*[[:alnum:]]" > > > > Is there any technical reason this couldn't be altered to accept `_` > > as well, e.g. > > > > "[[:alpha:]][[:alnum:]._]*[[:alnum:]]" > > > > I realize that historically `_` has not always been valid in variable > > names, but this has now been acceptable for 15+ years (since R 1.9.0 I > > believe). Might we also allow underscores for package names? > > The tarball names separate the package name from the version number > using an underscore. There is code that is written to assume there is > at most one underscore, e.g. .check_package_CRAN_incoming in > src/library/tools/R/QC.r. > > That code could be changed, but so could the proposed package name... > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
