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--27464147-1563048805-1132142703=:11543 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>>> "petrakl" =3D=3D petrakl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:10:46 +0100 (CET) writes: > > petrakl> Full_Name: L. Petr=E1k > petrakl> Version: 2.2 > petrakl> OS: w2k > petrakl> Submission from: (NULL) (193.109.177.11) > > > petrakl> # rcmd build Translation-it > petrakl> * checking for file 'Translation-it/DESCRIPTION' ... OK > petrakl> * preparing 'Translation-it': > petrakl> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR > petrakl> Malformed package name > > petrakl> See the information on DESCRIPTION files in section 'Creating= R > petrakl> packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual. > > if you do what this error message tells you, > you should quickly find > >>> The `Package' and `Version' fields give the name and the version of >>> the package, respectively. The name should consist of letters, >>> numbers, and the dot character and start with a letter. ............... > > Hence it's clear that the character "-" is not allowed in a > package name. > > So why do you think this is a bug ? Because that form 'Translation-ll' is recommended in the R-exts manual for translation packages. We do say R CMD build will build such=20 packages, and at the time it was written it did. So we need to make an=20 exception in 'build' for translation packages. --=20 Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 --27464147-1563048805-1132142703=:11543-- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
