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

[Raubertas, Richard]

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-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey J. Hallman
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:09 AM
> To: r-help at 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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