Let me quote the authority on naming convention: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
Best, Ravi. ____________________________________________________________________ Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:17 am Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments To: Yves Rosseel <yves.ross...@ugent.be> Cc: r-help@r-project.org, richard_rauber...@merck.com > >> 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 > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > 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.