Yes, but the choice of a name can substantively affect the marketing
success of a new product. The current "sos" package started as the
"RSiteSearch" package. I asked people for comments about the name. The
consensus was that "RSiteSearch" was not a good name for that, and the
universal distress signal "sos" would be better. Spencer
On 7/15/2010 6:04 AM, Ravi Varadhan wrote:
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.
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Assistant Professor,
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
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----- 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
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