R devel - Jun 2005 - Capitalize the title in DESCRIPTION files? (PR#7969)

Full_Name: David Firth
Version: 2.1.1
OS: Mac OS X
Submission from: (NULL) (137.205.240.25)


A small inconsistency in the "Writing R Extensions" manual: at 
  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file
the displayed example has
  Title: My first collection of functions
but the text that follows it says "The Title field...should be
capitalized",
which I take to mean
  Title: My First Collection of Functions

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 d.firth at warwick.ac.uk wrote:
> Full_Name: David Firth
> Version: 2.1.1
> OS: Mac OS X
> Submission from: (NULL) (137.205.240.25)
>
>
> A small inconsistency in the "Writing R Extensions" manual: at
>  http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#The-DESCRIPTION-file
> the displayed example has
>  Title: My first collection of functions
> but the text that follows it says "The Title field...should be
capitalized",
> which I take to mean
>  Title: My First Collection of Functions
Well, `do as we say, not do as we do' applies, I think.
Thank you, we'll try to set a better example.

(As you may guess, the example and advice are from different hands and the 
example predates the advice.)

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