R help - Jul 2010 - [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list survey experiments

I know nothing about your package, but "list" is a terrible name for
it,
as "list" is also the name of a data type in R. 
-- 
Jeff

I encourage all authors and maintainers of packages that they use 
"findFn" in the "sos" package to search for other uses of a
name you
want to use.  The "findFn" function searches for matches in the help 
pages of contributed packages, including all of CRAN plus some 
elsewhere.  The "grepFn" can identify help pages whose name contains a
particular term.


       The R Journal from last December contains an article describing 
this:    
"http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2009-2/RJournal_2009-2_Graves~et~al.pdf".



       Hope this helps.
       Spencer Graves


On 7/12/2010 7:08 AM, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote:
> I know nothing about your package, but "list" is a terrible name
for it,
> as "list" is also the name of a data type in R.
>    

-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Operating Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
751 Emerson Ct.
San Jos?, CA 95126
ph:  408-655-4567

I agree that 'list' is a terrible package name, but only secondarily 
because it is a data type.  The primary problem is that it is so generic

as to be almost totally uninformative about what the package does.  

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? 

R.Raubertas
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> list surveyexperiments
> 
> I know nothing about your package, but "list" is a terrible 
> name for it,
> as "list" is also the name of a data type in R. 
> -- 
> Jeff
> 
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