Previously, I disliked some of R's names. e.g. Action of the Toes. But then later realized toes are really important.
I don't want to disagree with a 'reviewer'. But I would say subtle references to literature and philosophy demonstrate 'depth'. Was your reviewer a member of the (A)merican (S)tatistical (S)ociety...? Who came up with that name...? It's all subjective really... On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 10:39 AM Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > A reviewer of a paper that I wrote, of which the "hse" package was > a central consideration, thought that users might find the name "hse" > ("hope springs eternal") to be indicative of a lack of seriousness. > > Consequently I have changed the name of the package to "dbd" > ("discretised beta distribution"). The underlying distribution, on > which the package is focussed, is now called "db" ("discretised beta"). > > The "hse" package still exists, *only* in order to produce a message > (when the package is loaded) to the effect that the package is > deprecated and that users should install and utilse the dbd package > instead. > > The dbd package includes a number of modifications which (it is to be > hoped) make it an improvement over the hse package that it replaces. > > I would be grateful to anyone who points out any problems with or > errors in the dbd package. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.