[R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing listsurveyexperiments
Jonathan Baron
baron at psych.upenn.edu
Wed Jul 14 03:52:38 CEST 2010
Some of us enter these things with a keyboard! (Don't know what the
rest of you do.) That takes time, and command completion won't always
pick out the right one immediately.
On 07/13/10 18:44, Bert Gunter wrote:
> 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
--
Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron
Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org)
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