From h.wickham at gmail.com  Fri Jun 16 10:47:35 2006
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (hadley wickham)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:47:35 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Package naming best practices
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Hi Jeff,

I'd recommend you name it something you can google easily (ie. that
there are few (or no) hits currently from google).  That way it's
really easy to tell people how to find the package/your webpage.

Hadley

On 6/15/06, Jeff Enos <jeff at kanecap.com> 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
hadley wickham