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

[Jonathan Baron]

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-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> > On Behalf Of Raubertas, Richard
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:47 AM
> > To: r-help at 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
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