From cubranic at stat.ubc.ca  Fri Apr  1 20:22:40 2011
From: cubranic at stat.ubc.ca (Davor Cubranic)
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:22:40 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Phrase "package writer" in R-exts
Message-ID: <CCD49859-DA7D-439B-B75A-06082BDFF57D@stat.ubc.ca>

In a conversation with a programmer new to writing R packages, he mentioned that he was very confused by phrase "package writer" used in the document, and said that he "[was] literally imagining some sort of function that writes something related to packages".

I can see his point: not only is it confusing, but I think it's also bad English (one wouldn't say "the novel's writer"). Can this be changed to "package author"?

Davor


[Rd] Phrase "package writer" in R-exts
Davor Cubranic