New package "list" for analyzing list surveyexperiments

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...

ls
cat
rm
cp
mv
su

No need to leave R, which has some 9 one-letter symbols, 35 two-letter 
symbols, and 121 three letter symbols in the base and core packages.  It 
is just unreal.  (The equivalent numbers from my Linux system are 3, 56, 
and 148, and one of those one-letter commands is R!!)

Quiz yourself on these:

"c" "C" "D" "F" "I" "q" "s" "t" "T"

"ar" "as" "bs" "by" "cm" "de" "df" "dt" "el" "gc" "gl" "if" "Im" "is" 
"lh" "lm" "ls" "lu" "ns" "pf" "pi" "pt" "qf" "qq" "qr" "qt" "Re" "rf" 
"rm" "rt" "sd" "te" "ts" "VA" "vi"

"abs" "acf" "ACF" "AIC" "all" "aml" "any" "aov" "Arg" "ave" "bam" "bcv" 
"bdf" "BIC" "bmp" "BOD" "box" "bxp" "cat" "cav" "ccf" "cch" "cd4" "cgd" 
"co2" "CO2" "col" "cor" "cos" "cov" "cut" "DDT" "det"
"dim" "Dim" "dir" "end" "exp" "fft" "fgl" "fir" "fix" "for" "gam" "get" 
"glm" "gls" "Gun" "hat" "hcl" "hsv" "IGF" "IQR" "Kfn" "knn" "lag" "lcm" 
"lda" "lme" "log" "lqs" "mad" "Map" "max" "mca" "min" "mle" "Mod" "new" 
"nlm" "nls" "npk" "nsl" "OME" "one" "Ops" "pam" "par" "pbc" "PBG" "pdf" 
"pie" "png" "ppr" "qda" "raw" "rep" "rev" "rfs" "rgb" "rig" "rle" "rlm" 
"row" "rug" "seq" "sin" "SOM" "SSD" "SSI" "stl" "str" "sub" "sum" "svd" 
"svg" "tan" "tar" "tau" "tcl" "tmd" "try" "tsp" "two" "ucv" "unz" "url" 
"var" "x11" "X11" "xor"


Generated from R --vanilla with:

for (p in c("base", "boot", "class", "cluster", "codetools", "datasets", 
"foreign", "graphics", "grDevices", "grid", "KernSmooth", "lattice", 
"MASS", "Matrix", "methods", "mgcv", "nlme", "nnet", "rpart", "spatial", 
"splines", "stats", "stats4", "survival", "tcltk", "tools", "utils")) 
library(p, character.only=TRUE)
rm(p)
one <- unique(grep("^[[:alnum:]]+$", apropos("^.$"), value=TRUE))
two <- unique(grep("^[[:alnum:]]+$", apropos("^..$"), value=TRUE))
three <- unique(grep("^[[:alnum:]]+$", apropos("^...$"), value=TRUE))

and from the bash shell with

ls -1 {/usr,}/bin/? 2>/dev/null
ls -1 {/usr,}/bin/?? | perl -ne 'print substr $_,-3' | sort -u | wc -l
ls -1 {/usr,}/bin/??? | perl -ne 'print substr $_,-4' | sort -u | wc -l

Allan