On 04/07/15 06:27, Yihui Xie wrote:
Sigh, how natural it is to say "This package ...", but you probably don't know a package can be easily rejected by CRAN simply because of this phrase "This package" (it has been clearly stated in the R-exts manual).
Urrrkkkk! I *did* "know" that, but had forgotten. Apologies for my wrong-headed suggestion. Thanks for pointing out my error.
I don't think the grammar is the problem here. When in doubt, I always check what MASS does: http://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/MASS/index.html Turns out its description is not a complete sentence, either. Sounds like R has become a language for statistical computing and graphics, plus English grammar since 3.0.x.
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.
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