[R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing listsurveyexperiments

[Bert Gunter]

Rich:

I suspect it's a cultural relic of the "storage is scarce" era that begat
"C" and "R" in the first place. Cutesiness. Culture is hard to change, but I
think you make a very salient point! 

-- Bert

Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Statistics

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Raubertas, Richard
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:47 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing
> listsurveyexperiments
> 
> I agree that 'list' is a terrible package name, but only secondarily
> because it is a data type.  The primary problem is that it is so generic
> 
> as to be almost totally uninformative about what the package does.
> 
> For some reason package writers seem to prefer maximally uninformative
> names for their packages.  To take some examples of recently announced
> packages, can anyone guess what packages 'FDTH', 'rtv', or 'lavaan'
> do?  Why the aversion to informative names along the lines of
> 'Freq_dist_and_histogram', 'RandomTimeVariables', and
> 'Latent_Variable_Analysis', respectively?
> 
> R.Raubertas
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey J. Hallman
> > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:09 AM
> > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> > Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing
> > list surveyexperiments
> >
> > I know nothing about your package, but "list" is a terrible
> > name for it,
> > as "list" is also the name of a data type in R.
> > --
> > Jeff
> >
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