From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Thu Sep  3 15:37:57 2009
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:37:57 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Package names
In-Reply-To: <f8e6ff050909030611j76caa1cay22e07b43c75baa@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f8e6ff050909030611j76caa1cay22e07b43c75baa@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4A9FC6B5.3030501@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>



Hadley Wickham wrote:
> 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?


Hadley, it is used as the separator between packagename and version 
number in the name of a package. And (at least my) code relies on the 
fact that there is exactly one "_" in the filename.

Best,
Uwe




> Hadley
>



[Rd] Package names
Uwe Ligges