On 21/07/2016 6:50 PM, Jim Lemon wrote:
Hi all,
I had a quick look through the tools package, but was unable to find
the function that checks the DESCRIPTION file.
src/library/tools/R/QC.R near line 6600.
From the look of the
functions I did examine, it looks like there will be a call somewhere
to a spell checker for DESCRIPTION. As I notice a lot of spelling
mistakes in the help files, spell checking is probably not done for
most files (or maintainers ignore the notes). Perhaps an argument to
turn off spell checking (--nospell) might solve the problem as
misspelling of a crucial word would throw an error regardless.
The ?aspell help topic shows you how to check your own .Rd files. CRAN
doesn't do those checks. If you want to turn off the checks on your own
DESCRIPTION file, set the environment variable
_R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_USE_ASPELL_
to FALSE. But if you do that and let real spelling errors slip through,
the judges won't be merciful.
Duncan Murdoch
Jim
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
On 22/07/16 10:34, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 21/07/2016 5:48 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
I just had a revision of a package built by win-builder, as a way of
exposing it to a rigorous check before uploading it to CRAN.
The 00check.log contained the note:
> Possibly mis-spelled words in DESCRIPTION:
> Delaunay (4:8, 10:29)
> Voronoi (4:46, 11:5)
> triangulations (12:28)
The spellings are, as far as I can tell correct. Is there a way of
telling the package checker that these spellings are OK?
You can put them in single quotes, and the spell checker won't check
them. Of course, that would make your DESCRIPTION look like crap.
You'll just have to throw yourself on the mercy of the CRAN judges.
Thanks Duncan. May the judges be merciful! :-)
cheers,
Rolf
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