[R] Longer synonym for R?

kjetil halvorsen kjetilh at umsanet.edu.bo
Sat Sep 28 15:24:12 CEST 2002


Search engines have gotten better with this problem over time. I tyried
most with CRAN, not R. Other matches for CRAN are:

Canadian Romance Authors Network
Cristian Rural Aid Network


Kjetil Halvorsen

Murray Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> [This message is not always serious, but it addresses a real problem.]
> 
> A problem with R's present name is that it is not very well suited to
> search engines, although Google at least seems to cope as long as you have
> sufficient other terms to filter out Toys R Us. Initials remain a problem.
> 
> I suppose "R" is just too culty to do away with, but perhaps we could come
> up with a longer synonymous name. Meditating on this one day I came up with
> a few lengthenings of the name:
> 
> RRVR
> 
> (inspired by another package and initials of some of the contributors)
> 
> Rgnu
> 
> (Flanders & Swan: "I'm Rgnu")
> 
> openR
> 
> discovR
> 
> enviRon
> 
> Finally, and most boringly,  Rstat.
> 
> Dr Murray Jorgensen      http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html
> Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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