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

[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 writing a package, you sometimes have to make reference to its
name.  For example, in .C() calls I use the 'package = "pkgname"'
argument pretty often. And it's nice to have the output from calling
search() look nice.

Jeff

"Raubertas, Richard" <richard_raubertas at merck.com> writes:

> 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? 

-- 
Jeff