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 read.dcf("DESCRIPTION")[,"Description"] and check that it contains
what you think it would contain.
-pd
> On 05 Jul 2015, at 11:13 , jwd <j...@surewest.net> wrote:
>
> 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 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?
>>
>> Best
>>
>> F
>
> Well, no. It isn't a complete sentence which requires a subject, and
> object and a verb. However, there are not many package Descriptions
> that ARE complete sentences. Some could be reworded awkwardly into a
> functional sentence. You could for instance try:
>
> "[Library/Package name] is a collection of functions designed to test
> for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data."
>
> That is a complete sentence as it contains a form of the
> verb "to be," to whit "is." By using the package name you also avoid
> the stricture against "The package consists ..."
>
> JWdougherty
>
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