Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-15 Thread Spencer Graves
m Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:17 am Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments To: Yves Rosseel Cc: r-help@r-project.org, richard_rauber...@merck.com For some reason package writers seem to prefer maximally uninformative

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-15 Thread Ravi Varadhan
ic Medicine and Gerontology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Ph. (410) 502-2619 email: rvarad...@jhmi.edu - Original Message - From: Hadley Wickham Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:17 am Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiment

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-15 Thread Hadley Wickham
>> 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_a

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-14 Thread Allan Engelhardt
On 13/07/10 19:16, Erik Iverson wrote: Raubertas, Richard wrote: 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 pack

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-14 Thread Yves Rosseel
On 07/13/2010 07:46 PM, Raubertas, Richard wrote: 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

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-14 Thread Jeffrey J. Hallman
Well, as the author of two CRAN packages with short names (tis and fame), I maintain that short names can be fairly informative. The fame package is an interface to FAME time series databases, and the tis package implements the tis (TimeIndexedSeries) class and support classes that it needs. When

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-14 Thread Martin Maechler
rtake (*and* maintain (!)), but as I say, R-devel is the place to propose and discuss changes to R. Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich RR> R.Raubertas >> -Original Message- From: >> r-help-boun...@r-project.org >> [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.o

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-13 Thread Erik Iverson
Raubertas, Richard wrote: 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 maximall

Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

2010-07-13 Thread Raubertas, Richard
riables', and 'Latent_Variable_Analysis', respectively? R.Raubertas > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [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 &