Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package list for analyzing listsurveyexperiments
-Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hadley Wickham Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 12:15 AM To: Yves Rosseel Cc: r-help@r-project.org; richard_rauber...@merck.com Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package list for analyzing listsurveyexperiments 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. -- Hmm... Strange attractors. We're into quantum physics now ... :0 -- Bert 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. __ 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.
Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package list for analyzing listsurveyexperiments
Rich:
I suspect it's a cultural relic of the storage is scarce era that begat
C and R in the first place. Cutesiness. Culture is hard to change, but I
think you make a very salient point!
-- Bert
Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Statistics
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listsurveyexperiments
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?
R.Raubertas
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[mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey J. Hallman
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:09 AM
To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package list for analyzing
list surveyexperiments
I know nothing about your package, but list is a terrible
name for it,
as list is also the name of a data type in R.
--
Jeff
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Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package list for analyzing listsurveyexperiments
Some of us enter these things with a keyboard! (Don't know what the rest of you do.) That takes time, and command completion won't always pick out the right one immediately. On 07/13/10 18:44, Bert Gunter wrote: Rich: I suspect it's a cultural relic of the storage is scarce era that begat C and R in the first place. Cutesiness. Culture is hard to change, but I think you make a very salient point! -- Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Statistics -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Raubertas, Richard Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:47 AM To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package list for analyzing listsurveyexperiments 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? R.Raubertas -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org) __ 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.
