From Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at  Thu Sep  3 15:19:25 2009
From: Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:19:25 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Package names
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>>>>> Hadley Wickham writes:

> Currently, writing R extensions states: "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. "

> Now that _ is no longer an assignment operator, could it be added to
> this list?

This would make it trickier to parse PACKAGE_VERSION.tar.gz et al file
names, and break lots of code based on this naming scheme.

-k

> Hadley

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[Rd] Package names
Kurt Hornik