[Bioc-devel] Biobase: Imports repeats Depends

2015-04-25 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
It seems unnecessary that BiocGenerics have the same package under Imports as under Depends. The former can be dropped. packageDescription(BiocGenerics) Package: BiocGenerics Title: S4 generic functions for Bioconductor Description: S4 generic functions needed by many Bioconductor packages.

Re: [Rd] Development version of R: Improved nchar(), nzchar() but changed API

2015-04-25 Thread James Cloos
GC == Gábor Csárdi csardi.ga...@gmail.com writes: GC You can get an RSS/Atom feed, however, if that's good: GC https://github.com/wch/r-source/commits/master.atom That is available in gwene/gmane as: gwene.com.github.wch.r-source.commits.trunk -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com

Re: [Rd] Title case in DESCRIPTION for package where a word is a function namei

2015-04-25 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Apr 25, 2015 05:07, Prof J C Nash (U30A) nas...@uottawa.ca wrote: How about allowing underscore? (I believe WRE is silent on this, and I have not tried submitting a package with underscore in the title.) As I pointed out in my OP, _optim()_ works. And we have the advantage that we can

Re: [Rd] Title case in DESCRIPTION for package where a word is a function name

2015-04-25 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
Hendrik pointed out it was the parentheses that gave the complaint. Single quotes and no parentheses seem to satisfy R CMD check. Perhaps that needs to be in the WRE. However, I have for some time used the parentheses to distinguish functions from packages. optim() is a function, optimx a

Re: [Rd] Title case in DESCRIPTION for package where a word is a function namei

2015-04-25 Thread peter dalgaard
On 25 Apr 2015, at 13:11 , Prof J C Nash (U30A) nas...@uottawa.ca wrote: Hendrik pointed out it was the parentheses that gave the complaint. Single quotes and no parentheses seem to satisfy R CMD check. Perhaps that needs to be in the WRE. Well, it is in ?toTitleCase: ...However,

Re: [Rd] Title case in DESCRIPTION for package where a word is a function namei

2015-04-25 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
How about allowing underscore? (I believe WRE is silent on this, and I have not tried submitting a package with underscore in the title.) As I pointed out in my OP, _optim()_ works. And we have the advantage that we can distinguish package from function. The purpose of consistent editing is