[R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?

[Federico Calboli]

> On 3 Jul 2015, at 12:14, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It might be a line break problem - I think you want:
> 
> Description: Functions designed to test for single gene/phenotype
> association and
>    for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data.

Tried this and unfortunately it does not help.

BW

F


> 
> Hadley
> 
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Federico Calboli
> <federico.calboli at helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am upgrading a package for CRAN, and I get this note:
>> 
>> checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
>> Malformed Description field: should contain one or more complete sentences.
>> 
>> This is puzzling because:
>> 
>> cat DESCRIPTION
>> 
>> ...
>> Description: Functions designed to test for single gene/phenotype association and for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data.
>> ...
>> 
>> In my understanding "Functions designed to test for single gene/phenotype association and for pleiotropy on genetic and genomic data.” *is* a complete sentence.  So, what is complete sentence in the opinion of whomever coded that check?
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> F
>> 
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>> Department of Biosciences
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>> FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
>> Finland
>> 
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Federico Calboli
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Department of Biosciences
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FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
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