[Returnanalytics-commits] r3988 - pkg/Dowd

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Author: dacharya
Date: 2015-08-31 23:46:12 +0200 (Mon, 31 Aug 2015)
New Revision: 3988

Modified:
   pkg/Dowd/DESCRIPTION
Log:
Description according to CRAN policies

Modified: pkg/Dowd/DESCRIPTION
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--- pkg/Dowd/DESCRIPTION	2015-08-30 19:06:46 UTC (rev 3987)
+++ pkg/Dowd/DESCRIPTION	2015-08-31 21:46:12 UTC (rev 3988)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: Dowd
 Type: Package
-Title: Functions Ported From MMR2 Toolbox Offered in Kevin Dowd's Book 
+Title: Functions Ported from 'MMR2' Toolbox Offered in Kevin Dowd's Book 
           Measuring Market Risk
 Version: 0.1
 Date: 2015-08-20
@@ -8,16 +8,16 @@
 Maintainer: Dinesh Acharya <dines.acharya at gmail.com>
 Description: Kevin Dowd's book Measuring Market Risk is a widely read book 
           in the area of risk measurement by students and 
-          practitioners alike. As he claims, MATLAB indeed might have been most 
+          practitioners alike. As he claims, 'MATLAB' indeed might have been the most 
           suitable language when he originally wrote the functions, but,
-          with growing popularity of R and a large user base it is not entirely 
-	  valid. As Dowd's code was not intended to be error free and were more 
+          with growing popularity of R it is not entirely 
+	  valid. As Dowd's code was not intended to be error free and were mainly 
 	  for reference, some functions in this package have inherited those 
 	  errors. An attempt will be made in future releases to identify and correct 
 	  them. Dowd's original code can be downloaded from www.kevindowd.org/measuring-market-risk/. 
           It should be noted that Dowd offers both
-          MMR2 and MMR1 toolboxes. Only MMR2 was ported to R. MMR2 is more 
-          recent version of MMR1 toolbox and they both have mostly similar 
+          'MMR2' and 'MMR1' toolboxes. Only 'MMR2' was ported to R. 'MMR2' is more 
+          recent version of 'MMR1' toolbox and they both have mostly similar 
           function. The toolbox mainly contains different parametric and non 
 	  parametric methods for measurement of market risk as well as 
 	  backtesting risk measurement methods.