>> 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? > > As an author of a package with a maximally uninformative name (lavaan), I > like to believe that strange names can have strange attractions. After all, > you did notice the package, didn't you?
Plus you can google it! Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.
