From khansen at stat.Berkeley.EDU  Thu Jun 15 02:21:35 2006
From: khansen at stat.Berkeley.EDU (Kasper Daniel Hansen)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:21:35 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Package naming best practices
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Only personal preferences, although you might argue that the two  
naming schemes hints at a package using either S3 or S4 methodology.  
Some packages also has a all cap naming scheme like PortfolioSim.

But why not follow part of the R community and choose an  
incomprehensible abbreviation like
   Ps614
(where 614 of course refer to the date that you posted this question  
on R-devel) or try to appeal to the script kiddies by something like
   P0rS1mRul3z

/Kasper

On Jun 14, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Jeff Enos wrote:

> R-devel,
>
> I'm in the process of choosing a name for a new package.  I've already
> decided that the name will have two parts, 'portfolio' and 'sim', but
> can't decide between 'portfolioSim' and 'portfolio.sim'.  Is there any
> good reason to choose one over the other?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff
>
>
> -- 
> Jeff Enos
> Kane Capital Management
> jeff at kanecap.com
>
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[Rd] Package naming best practices
Kasper Daniel Hansen