[R] Longer synonym for R?

Murray Jorgensen maj at waikato.ac.nz
Sun Sep 29 23:02:20 CEST 2002


So you will pick up sentences like

"Using CRAN to fit nonlinear random coefficients models?"

Murray

At 09:24 28/09/02 -0400, kjetil halvorsen wrote:
>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
>> Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz                            Fax +64-7 838 4155
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