Well, as the author of two CRAN packages with short names (tis and fame), I maintain that short names can be fairly informative. The fame package is an interface to FAME time series databases, and the tis package implements the tis (TimeIndexedSeries) class and support classes that it needs.
When writing a package, you sometimes have to make reference to its name. For example, in .C() calls I use the 'package = "pkgname"' argument pretty often. And it's nice to have the output from calling search() look nice. Jeff "Raubertas, Richard" <richard_rauber...@merck.com> writes: > 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? -- 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.
