[R] [External] Re: Is there a canonical way to pronounce CRAN?

[Erin Hodgess]

In that case, if you were a user without common sense, would you be a BRAN
flake?

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 9:13 AM Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson using lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> If the founders had called it the Big R Archive Network we wouldn't be
> having this discussion but we'd all be getting our packages from BRAN.
>
> Or how about "Big R Internet Archive Network".... Or would that be
> confusing...
>
> Barry
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 3:51 PM Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe using utoronto.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking links
> > or attachments.
> >
> > Interesting.
> >
> > I have always pronounced it as See-ran. This probably stems from my
> > exposure to other archive like CPAN (perl) and CTAN (TeX) that I have
> been
> > exposed to. Obviously the latter two acronyms are unpronounceable as
> words
> > so I generalized the approach to CRAN.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > > On May 4, 2022, at 7:20 AM, Roland Rau via R-help <
> r-help using r-project.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I talked with colleagues this morning and we realized that some people
> > (=me) pronounce CRAN like the German word "Kran" (probably pronounced
> like
> > "cruhn" in English -- if it was a word).
> > > My colleague pronounced it as "Sea-Ran" or "Sea-Run". The colleague was
> > a student and has worked at the same institution as an R Core Developer
> and
> > heard it from him personally.
> > >
> > > So now I am puzzled. Have I been wrong about 43% of my life? ;-)
> > >
> > > Honestly: Is there a unique way how the core developers prounounce
> CRAN?
> > >
> > > Not an urgent question at all but maybe interesting to many of us.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Roland
> > >
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Erin Hodgess, PhD
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