If the founders had called it the Big R Archive Network we wouldn't be having this discussion but we'd all be getting our packages from BRAN.
Or how about "Big R Internet Archive Network".... Or would that be confusing... Barry On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:51 PM Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking links > or attachments. > > Interesting. > > I have always pronounced it as See-ran. This probably stems from my > exposure to other archive like CPAN (perl) and CTAN (TeX) that I have been > exposed to. Obviously the latter two acronyms are unpronounceable as words > so I generalized the approach to CRAN. > > Kevin > > > > On May 4, 2022, at 7:20 AM, Roland Rau via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> > wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > I talked with colleagues this morning and we realized that some people > (=me) pronounce CRAN like the German word "Kran" (probably pronounced like > "cruhn" in English -- if it was a word). > > My colleague pronounced it as "Sea-Ran" or "Sea-Run". The colleague was > a student and has worked at the same institution as an R Core Developer and > heard it from him personally. > > > > So now I am puzzled. Have I been wrong about 43% of my life? ;-) > > > > Honestly: Is there a unique way how the core developers prounounce CRAN? > > > > Not an urgent question at all but maybe interesting to many of us. > > > > Thanks, > > Roland > > > > -- > > This mail has been sent through the MPI for Demographic ...{{dropped:2}} > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > 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. > > -- > Kevin E. Thorpe > Head of Biostatistics, Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC) > Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital > Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health > University of Toronto > email: kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.3016 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.