[R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?

[Federico Calboli]

As I said, I found a formulation that pleased the check and that’s it for me.  I am befuddled by the check in the first place though.

BW

F


> On 3 Jul 2015, at 15:14, PIKAL Petr <petr.pikal at precheza.cz> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> without going deep into this matter, what if you remove "/" from your sentence.
> 
> Cheers
> Petr
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hadley
>> Wickham
>> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2015 1:14 PM
>> To: Federico Calboli
>> Cc: R-help
>> Subject: Re: [R] what constitutes a 'complete sentence'?
>> 
>> In that case, you need to create a minimal reproducible example and
>> make it publicly available.
>> 
>> Hadley
>> 
>> On Friday, July 3, 2015, Federico Calboli
>> <federico.calboli at helsinki.fi>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 3 Jul 2015, at 12:14, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com
>>> <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>> 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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>>>>> Federico Calboli
>>>>> Ecological Genetics Research Unit
>>>>> Department of Biosciences
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>>>>> FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
>>>>> Finland
>>>>> 
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Department of Biosciences
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