From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Nov 16 13:05:17 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:05:17 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] Malformed package name (PR#8314)
Message-ID: <20051116120517.881D71E366@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:

>>>>>> "petrakl" =3D=3D petrakl  <petrakl at zce.cz>
>>>>>>     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.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] Malformed package name (PR#8314)
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