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-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey J. Hallman > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:09 AM > To: r-h...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachme...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
