Message-ID: <43980A43.20107@tuwien.ac.at>
Date: 2005-12-08T10:26:11Z
From: Peter Filzmoser
Subject: [RsR] Package title
In-Reply-To: <17302.61918.196538.812904@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>>"Wst" == Werner Stahel <stahel at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>> on Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:25:41 +0100 writes:
>
>
> Wst> Hello Names are always nice to discuss. Let me add a
> Wst> simple proposal for the name of the package: robust
> Wst> Since this should be the well maintained collection of
> Wst> robust methods, I would go for the "generic" name.
>
> (and Alfio Marazzi agreed with you).
>
> There is one very good reason against 'robust':
> Insightful's library(robust) for S-plus.
>
> Our package will certainly not be a clone, and probably quite
> different in more than respect. If we chose the same name,
> that would lead to a *lot* of potential user confusion for those
> who use both R and S-plus.
> I'm sorry but I think that "robust" is really already taken in
> the world of S ...
How about "robust-base"? I rather prefer longer abbreviations
than shorter if confusion can be avoided. The advantage is that
we can then also have packages "robust-mva", "robust-glm" etc.,
and it is easy to find all "robust" packages since they are
in alphabetical order.
Peter
>
> Martin
>
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