From hadley at rice.edu  Thu Sep  3 15:34:15 2009
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:34:15 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Package names
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>> 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.

Oh, good point.

Hadley


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[Rd] Package names
Hadley Wickham