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

[Spencer Graves]

Yes, but the choice of a name can substantively affect the marketing 
success of a new product.  The current "sos" package started as the 
"RSiteSearch" package.  I asked people for comments about the name.  The 
consensus was that "RSiteSearch" was not a good name for that, and the 
universal distress signal "sos" would be better.  Spencer


On 7/15/2010 6:04 AM, Ravi Varadhan wrote:
> Let me quote the authority on naming convention:
>
> "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
>
> Best,
> Ravi.
>
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hadley Wickham<hadley at rice.edu>
> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:17 am
> Subject: Re: [R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments
> To: Yves Rosseel<Yves.Rosseel at ugent.be>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org, richard_raubertas at merck.com
>
>
>    
>>>> 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
>>
>>   --
>>   Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
>>   Department of Statistics / Rice University
>>
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