If R had remained just S, or even S++, would we be debating how to
pronounce?CSAN?
I do note in some languages CS is pronounceable. LOL!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
To: r-help at r-project.org; Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca>;
Roland Rau <rau at demogr.mpg.de>
Cc: R Help Mailing List <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Wed, May 4, 2022 12:01 pm
Subject: Re: [R] Is there a canonical way to pronounce CRAN?
I had exposure to CPAN and CTAN before learning R, and then there is MRAN... but
with no in-person mentors influencing me I decided not to pronounce the C
separately in CRAN. The "CRANberries" website indicates that I am not
alone.
On May 4, 2022 7:38:13 AM PDT, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.thorpe at utoronto.ca>
wrote:>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 at
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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