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Jean-Christophe> Hi everybody
  Jean-Christophe> Ok, if a votation is going to take place I vote for
  Jean-Christophe> robustat :-)

  > you mean    mean(c(robusta, robustats)) 
  > or rather  huber(c(robusta, robustats))  ;-) ?

  > The reason for "*stats" was that there's already the basic
  > "stats"  (and "stats4") package...

Using google to evaluate vocabulary seems popular these days (see the
thread on Gibraltar on r-devel ;-), so let's see:

As someone (forgot who) has already mentioned in this thread, googling
gives 2.1 million hits for "robusta", 70 for "robustat" and 9 for
"robustats".

So together with the very good argument on "stats" and "stats4" by
Martin I'd strongly vote for "robustats". If we put a package of that
name on CRAN I expect it to be the Google top hit for its name within
a few weeks (if not days).

Just my 2c,
Fritz

PS: Of course we may also make the top hit for "robusta" ... googling
for the single letter "R" returns the R homepage as top link for a
couple of years now. But it is not really necessary to make searching
hard ... and searching for "robusta", e.g., in publication databases
may return a large number of biological articles for a long time.