[Rd] Title case in DESCRIPTION for package where a word is a function name

Ben Bolker bbolker at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 22:44:57 CEST 2015


Prof J C Nash (U30A <nashjc <at> uottawa.ca> writes:

> 
> I was preparing a fix for a minor glitch in my optimx package and R CMD
> check gave an error that the title was not in title case. 

  [snip] to make Gmane happy ...

> I have found
> 
> A Replacement and Extension of the _optim()_ Function
> 
> does not get the complaint, but I'm not sure the underscore is allowed.
> 
> Given that I've obeyed the RTFM rule, I'm wondering what to do now.

  Presumably you should ask the CRAN maintainers?  That seems to
be the only possible answer -- I don't think anyone else can guess 
very accurately ...

  Ben Bolker



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