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

[Hadley Wickham]

>> 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?
>
> As an author of a package with a maximally uninformative name (lavaan), I
> like to believe that strange names can have strange attractions. After all,
> you did notice the package, didn't you?

Plus you can google it!

Hadley

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Department of Statistics / Rice University
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