Re: [R-pkg-devel] note about mispelled words

2020-03-17 Thread Ben Bolker
Interesting. 'Kruskal Wallis' gets 5.68M google hits, 'Kruskall Wallis' gets 432K ... Within CRAN packages, sos::findFn("kruskal") gets 408 hits, =sos::findFn("kruskall") gets 15 hits. (Some of those may be like the use of 'euclidian' in stats::dist() to intentionally match misspellings

Re: [R-pkg-devel] note about mispelled words

2020-03-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
However, notice that if it is the guy from the Kruskal-Wallis test (William K., 1919--2005), the "Kruskall" is in fact misspelt. It might be someone else, of course... -pd > On 17 Mar 2020, at 18:24 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > I believe it is also acceptable to explain in your submission

Re: [R-pkg-devel] note about mispelled words

2020-03-17 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I believe it is also acceptable to explain in your submission message that the misspelled words are all proper names. As far as I know, misspellings are not enough of a problem to cause an automatic rejection, so a human being will be making a judgment about the note. Duncan Murdoch On

Re: [R-pkg-devel] note about mispelled words

2020-03-17 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
You can single quote them to avoid them being spell checked, e.g. ... using methods of 'Kruskall' and 'Brainerd'. This is a common and accepted practice. This is hinted at in "Writing R Extensions" (e.g. help.start()); The mandatory ‘Description’ field should give a comprehensive description of

[R-pkg-devel] note about mispelled words

2020-03-17 Thread Gianmarco Alberti
Hello, I am checking a package of mine, and I got only 1 note regarding possibly misspelled words in the DESCRIPTION. The issue I am facing is that those 6 words are not actually misspelled, being either first or last names of individuals (actually, statistician; e.g., Kruskall, Brainerd).