In line below
On 07/07/2015 11:20, peter dalgaard wrote:
...except that there is not necessarily a verb either. What we're looking for is
something like "advertisement style" as in
UGLY MUGS 7.95.
An invaluable addition to your display cabinet. Comes in an assortment of warts
and wrinkles, crafted by professional artist Foo Yung.
However, I'm drawing blanks when searching for an established term for it.
People who try to measure readability seem to define sentence as 'a
sequence of words terminated by a stop'. They presumably count question
marks and exclamation marks as a stop. So Peter's examples above are
indeed sentences for one meaning of sentence.
Could we perhaps sidestep the issue by requesting a "single descriptive paragraph,
with punctuation" or thereabouts?
----
I'm still puzzled about what threw Federico's example in the first place. The
actual code is
if(strict && !is.na(val <- db["Description"])
&& !grepl("[.!?]['\")]?$", trimws(val)))
out$bad_Description <- TRUE
and I can do this
strict <- TRUE
db <- tools:::.read_description("/tmp/dd")
if(strict && !is.na(val <- db["Description"])
+ && !grepl("[.!?]['\")]?$", trimws(val)))
+ out$bad_Description <- TRUE
out
Error: object 'out' not found
I.e., the complaint should _not_ be triggered. I suppose that something like a
non-breakable space at the end could confuse trimws(), but beyond that I'm out
of ideas.
On 07 Jul 2015, at 03:28 , John Fox <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
Dear Peter,
I think that the grammatical term you're looking for is "verb phrase."
Best,
John
On Tue, 7 Jul 2015 00:12:25 +0200
peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 06 Jul 2015, at 23:19 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 06/07/2015 5:09 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 07/07/15 07:10, William Dunlap wrote:
[Rolf Turner wrote.]
The CRAN guidelines should be rewritten so that they say what they *mean*.
If a complete sentence is not actually required --- and it seems abundantly
clear
that it is not --- then guidelines should not say so. Rather they should say,
clearly and comprehensibly, what actually *is* required.
This may be true, but also think of the user when you write the description.
If you are scanning a long list of descriptions looking for a package to
use,
seeing a description that starts with 'A package for' just slows you down.
Seeing a description that includes 'designed to' leaves you wondering if the
implementation is woefully incomplete. You want to go beyond what CRAN
can test for.
All very true and sound and wise, but what has this got to do with
complete sentences? The package checker issues a message saying that it
wants a complete sentence when this has nothing to do with what it
*really* wants.
That's false. If you haven't given a complete sentence, you might still
pass, but if you have, you will pass. That's not "nothing to do" with
what it really wants, it's just an imperfect test that fails to detect
violations of the guidelines.
As we've seen, it sometimes also makes mistakes in the other direction.
I'd say those are more serious.
Duncan Murdoch
Ackchewly....
I don't think what we want is what we say that we want. A quick check suggests that many/most packages use
"headline speech", as in "Provides functions for analysis of foo, with special emphasis on
bar.", which seems perfectly ok. As others have indicated, prefixing with "This package"
would be rather useless. However, I'm at a loss as to how to describe what it is that we want, much less how
to translate it to a dozen other languages.
-pd
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