[R] [R-pkgs] New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

[Erik Iverson]

Raubertas, Richard wrote:
> 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? 

I'm sure it's part tradition...

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