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-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On Behalf Of Raubertas, Richard > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:47 AM > To: r-h...@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-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. ______________________________________________ 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.