R-devel, I'm in the process of choosing a name for a new package. I've already decided that the name will have two parts, 'portfolio' and 'sim', but can't decide between 'portfolioSim' and 'portfolio.sim'. Is there any good reason to choose one over the other? Thanks in advance, Jeff -- Jeff Enos Kane Capital Management jeff at kanecap.com
Only personal preferences, although you might argue that the two naming schemes hints at a package using either S3 or S4 methodology. Some packages also has a all cap naming scheme like PortfolioSim. But why not follow part of the R community and choose an incomprehensible abbreviation like Ps614 (where 614 of course refer to the date that you posted this question on R-devel) or try to appeal to the script kiddies by something like P0rS1mRul3z /Kasper On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Jeff Enos wrote:> R-devel, > > I'm in the process of choosing a name for a new package. I've already > decided that the name will have two parts, 'portfolio' and 'sim', but > can't decide between 'portfolioSim' and 'portfolio.sim'. Is there any > good reason to choose one over the other? > > Thanks in advance, > > Jeff > > > -- > Jeff Enos > Kane Capital Management > jeff at kanecap.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Hi Jeff, I'd recommend you name it something you can google easily (ie. that there are few (or no) hits currently from google). That way it's really easy to tell people how to find the package/your webpage. Hadley On 6/15/06, Jeff Enos <jeff at kanecap.com> wrote:> R-devel, > > I'm in the process of choosing a name for a new package. I've already > decided that the name will have two parts, 'portfolio' and 'sim', but > can't decide between 'portfolioSim' and 'portfolio.sim'. Is there any > good reason to choose one over the other? > > Thanks in advance, > > Jeff > > > -- > Jeff Enos > Kane Capital Management > jeff at kanecap.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >