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-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 -- 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) ______________________________________________ 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.