I think it was reasonable to post this to the list for discussion -- it's good not to bother the CRAN maintainers unnecessarily. At this point it might be more productive to e-mail them (CRAN maintainers) for clarification: e.g., explain your interpretation of what they're asking you to do and give them some options about how you might propose to meet their requirements. Otherwise you're asking a bunch of strangers on the internet to guess what the CRAN maintainers want you to do ...
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/04/2018 4:17 PM, Dudek Andrzej wrote: >> >> CRAN maintainers rejected the package two times already due to this note >> >> But for previous version I've been asked to add the references in >> description field: >> >>> Package Information: >>> Package: mdsOpt >>> Version: 0.1-4 >>> Title: Searching for Optimal MDS Procedure for Metric Data >>> Author(s): Marek Walesiak <marek.wales...@ue.wroc.pl> Andrzej Dudek >>> <andrzej.du...@ue.wroc.pl> >>> Maintainer: Andrzej Dudek <andrzej.du...@ue.wroc.pl> >>> Depends: smacof, clusterSim >>> Suggests: testthat >>> Description: Searching for optimal multidimensional scaling procedure for >>> metric data. >> >> >> Thanks, can you please extend your description text. >> >> Can you provide some references in the form authors (year) <doi:...> or >> <arXiv:...> (no space after 'doi:' and 'arXiv:')? >> >> Best, >> Swetlana Herbrandt >> >> -------------------- >> >> So at this point is some kind of vicious circle for me :-) Maybe adding >> quotation mark is best idea (?) >> > > You didn't post the message for the current submission. In my experience, > they won't reject a package due to false positives from the spell checker, > so I would guess that you have misinterpreted their rejection message. > > When I was checking incoming packages, I would generally ask submitters to > respect the requirement to use complete sentences; none of your "sentences", > e.g. > > Selecting the optimal multidimensional scaling (MDS) procedure for metric > data via metric MDS (ratio, interval, mspline) and nonmetric MDS (ordinal). > > and your reference list > > (Borg, I., Groenen, P.J.F., Mair, P. (2013) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31848-1>, > De Leeuw, J., Mair, P. (2015) <doi:10.1002/9781118445112.stat06268.pub2>, > Groenen, P.J.F., Winsberg, S., Rodriguez, O., Diday, E. (2006) > <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.04.003>, > Walesiak, M. (2016) <doi:10.15611/ekt.2016.2.01>, > Walesiak, M. (2017) <doi:10.15611/ekt.2017.3.01>). > > are grammatically complete sentences, so I probably would have asked you to > reword things. > > Duncan Murdoch > > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
