[R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 11:14:06 CEST 2015


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.

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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>
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