[RsR] Package title

[Jean-Christophe BOUETTE]

Hi everybody

Ok, if a votation is going to take place I vote for
robustat :-)

I also volunteer for testing the package... I'd volunteer for
developing it if I were older than six months with R ;-)

So please feel free to send me private e-mails.
Jean-Christophe.

> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 10:48:38 +0100
> From: Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [RsR] Package title
> To: Friedrich.Leisch using tuwien.ac.at
> Cc: r-sig-robust using r-project.org
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> >>>>> "FrL" == Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch using tuwien.ac.at>
> >>>>>     on Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:13:57 +0100 writes:
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:26:11 +0100,
> >>>>> Peter Filzmoser (PF) wrote:
>
>
>    >> How about "robust-base"? I rather prefer longer abbreviations
>    >> than shorter if confusion can be avoided. The advantage is that
>    >> we can then also have packages "robust-mva", "robust-glm" etc.,
>    >> and it is easy to find all "robust" packages since they are
>    >> in alphabetical order.
>
>    FrL> The dash is not a legal character for package names, because, e.g.,
>
> yes, thank you Fritz;
> and thanks to the other proposals and thoughts.
>
>     .....
>
>    FrL> We could do robust.base, roubust.mva, ... though.
>
> As long as packages cannot export their C API, and also for
> other reasons, I don't think I'd aim for more than one
> "basic robustness" package.
> One of the major points has been that the package becomes so
> important (and "well done") that it will become a 'Recommended'
> one.
> For that very reason, it should not try to do "everything"
> (robust) but the *important* things, maybe in the sense that we
> ("workgroup regression" and others, at Treviso) had outlined
> earlier.
>
> Other people would build specialized packages that have
> 'Depends: BasicRobustStatistics' in their DESCRIPTION setup,
>
> where, given the comments so far (and my taste..)
> I'd still vote for
>    'robusta'  (from Valentin)
> or  'robustats'
>
> I'd definitely like something easy to spell (correctly) and to
> pronounce.  The 2nd proposal (above) is already at the border of
> being easily understood in oral communications.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
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