Interesting. 'Kruskal Wallis' gets 5.68M google hits, 'Kruskall
Wallis' gets 432K ...
Within CRAN packages, sos::findFn("kruskal") gets 408 hits,
=sos::findFn("kruskall") gets 15 hits. (Some of those may be like the
use of 'euclidian' in stats::dist() to intentionally match misspellings
... ?)
On 2020-03-17 2:09 p.m., Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> However, notice that if it is the guy from the Kruskal-Wallis test (William
> K., 1919--2005), the "Kruskall" is in fact misspelt. It might be someone
> else, of course...
>
> -pd
>
>> On 17 Mar 2020, at 18:24 , Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I believe it is also acceptable to explain in your submission message that
>> the misspelled words are all proper names. As far as I know, misspellings
>> are not enough of a problem to cause an automatic rejection, so a human
>> being will be making a judgment about the note.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>> On 17/03/2020 11:41 a.m., Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>>> You can single quote them to avoid them being spell checked, e.g. ...
>>> using methods of 'Kruskall' and 'Brainerd'. This is a common and
>>> accepted practice.
>>> This is hinted at in "Writing R Extensions" (e.g. help.start());
>>> The mandatory ‘Description’ field should give a comprehensive
>>> description of what the package does. One can use several (complete)
>>> sentences, but only one paragraph. It should be intelligible to all
>>> the intended readership (e.g. for a CRAN package to all CRAN users).
>>> It is good practice not to start with the package name, ‘This package’
>>> or similar. As with the ‘Title’ field, double quotes should be used
>>> for quotations (including titles of books and articles), and single
>>> quotes for non-English usage, including names of other packages and
>>> external software. This field should also be used for explaining the
>>> package name if necessary. URLs should be enclosed in angle brackets,
>>> e.g. ‘<https://www.r-project.org>’: see also Specifying URLs.
>>> /Henrik
>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:30 AM Gianmarco Alberti
>>> <gianmarcoalbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am checking a package of mine, and I got only 1 note regarding possibly
>>>> misspelled words in the DESCRIPTION.
>>>>
>>>> The issue I am facing is that those 6 words are not actually misspelled,
>>>> being either first or last names of individuals (actually, statistician;
>>>> e.g., Kruskall, Brainerd).
>>>>
>>>> Shall I have to do something (removing those; which does not make sense),
>>>> or upon submitting my new version of the package there is a way to make
>>>> clear that that note can be ignored?
>>>>
>>>> By the way, those names were already there in earlier versions of the
>>>> package and no note cropped out in those occasions.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>> Best
>>>> GmA
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> R packages on CRAN:
>>>> CAinterprTools
>>>> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CAinterprTools/index.html
>>>>
>>>> GmAMisc
>>>> https://cran.r-project.org/package=GmAMisc
>>>>
>>>> movecost
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