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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
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- 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
>> 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
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
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
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
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
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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
riables', and
'Latent_Variable_Analysis', respectively?
R.Raubertas
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