Full_Name: charles blundell Version: 2.7.0 OS: Debian GNU/Linux Submission from: (NULL) (217.37.73.202)
The Debian Policy Manual says concerning lines in a Description field: * Those containing a space, a full stop and some more characters. These are for future expansion. Do not use them. (section 5.6.13, http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html) But for example: > write.dcf(list(Description = 'there was a fat goat .haha'),indent=1,width=10) Description: there was a fat goat .haha A simple quoting scheme is to add a space in front of such full stops: --- src/library/base/R/dcf.R.orig 2008-09-12 20:42:37.000000000 +0100 +++ src/library/base/R/dcf.R 2008-09-12 20:54:16.000000000 +0100 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ ## * We have to handle multiple fields per record. escape_paragraphs <- function(s) - gsub("\n[[:space:]]*\n", "\n .\n ", s) + gsub("\n \\.([^\n])","\n .\\1", gsub("\n[[:space:]]*\n", "\n .\n ", s)) if(!is.data.frame(x)) x <- as.data.frame(x, stringsAsFactors = FALSE) As so: > write.dcf(list(Description = 'there was a fat goat .haha'),indent=1,width=10) Description: there was a fat goat .haha Doing this makes life easier for cran2deb as we can generate valid Debian control files using write.dcf. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
