[R] [External] Re: Is there a canonical way to pronounce CRAN?

[Barry Rowlingson]

If the founders had called it the Big R Archive Network we wouldn't be
having this discussion but we'd all be getting our packages from BRAN.

Or how about "Big R Internet Archive Network".... Or would that be
confusing...

Barry

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:51 PM Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca>
wrote:

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> Interesting.
>
> I have always pronounced it as See-ran. This probably stems from my
> exposure to other archive like CPAN (perl) and CTAN (TeX) that I have been
> exposed to. Obviously the latter two acronyms are unpronounceable as words
> so I generalized the approach to CRAN.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> > On May 4, 2022, at 7:20 AM, Roland Rau via R-help <r-help using r-project.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I talked with colleagues this morning and we realized that some people
> (=me) pronounce CRAN like the German word "Kran" (probably pronounced like
> "cruhn" in English -- if it was a word).
> > My colleague pronounced it as "Sea-Ran" or "Sea-Run". The colleague was
> a student and has worked at the same institution as an R Core Developer and
> heard it from him personally.
> >
> > So now I am puzzled. Have I been wrong about 43% of my life? ;-)
> >
> > Honestly: Is there a unique way how the core developers prounounce CRAN?
> >
> > Not an urgent question at all but maybe interesting to many of us.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Roland
> >
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