[RsR] Package title

[Jean-Christophe BOUETTE]

an example of "publication database" :
http://scholar.google.com
robusta : more than 20 thousands hits
robustat : 14 hits
robustats : no hit.
...

Jean-Christophe.

2005/12/9, Friedrich.Leisch using tuwien.ac.at <Friedrich.Leisch using tuwien.ac.at>:
> >>>>> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:37:05 +0100,
> >>>>> Martin Maechler (MM) wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Jean-Christophe" == Jean-Christophe BOUETTE <jcbouette using gmail.com>
> >>>>>     on Fri, 9 Dec 2005 13:47:41 +0100 writes:
>
>  Jean-Christophe> Hi everybody
>  Jean-Christophe> Ok, if a votation is going to take place I vote for
>  Jean-Christophe> robustat :-)
>
>  > you mean    mean(c(robusta, robustats))
>  > or rather  huber(c(robusta, robustats))  ;-) ?
>
>  > The reason for "*stats" was that there's already the basic
>  > "stats"  (and "stats4") package...
>
> Using google to evaluate vocabulary seems popular these days (see the
> thread on Gibraltar on r-devel ;-), so let's see:
>
> As someone (forgot who) has already mentioned in this thread, googling
> gives 2.1 million hits for "robusta", 70 for "robustat" and 9 for
> "robustats".
>
> So together with the very good argument on "stats" and "stats4" by
> Martin I'd strongly vote for "robustats". If we put a package of that
> name on CRAN I expect it to be the Google top hit for its name within
> a few weeks (if not days).
>
> Just my 2c,
> Fritz
>
> PS: Of course we may also make the top hit for "robusta" ... googling
> for the single letter "R" returns the R homepage as top link for a
> couple of years now. But it is not really necessary to make searching
> hard ... and searching for "robusta", e.g., in publication databases
> may return a large number of biological articles for a long time.
>