Hi Martin, This makes a lot of sense. Once I update the package I will add it. Could the authors of the 'ESSR' package also add a similar note to their DESCRIPTION file once the R part of ESS is released?
This package 'ESSR' is named to match the Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) project. It is unrelated to the 'ess' package, designed to download data from the European Social Survey available at http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org Thanks for raising these thoughts. ----------------------------------- Jorge Cimentada *https://cimentadaj.github.io/ <https://cimentadaj.github.io/>* On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch > wrote: > >>>>> Jorge Cimentada <cimenta...@gmail.com> > >>>>> on Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:31:43 +0100 writes: > > > Thanks to all. Will consider this change in future releases. > > ----------------------------------- > > > > Jorge Cimentada > > *https://cimentadaj.github.io/ <https://cimentadaj.github.io/>* > > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Rainer Krug < > rainer_k...@icloud.com> > > wrote: > > >> On 9 Nov 2017, at 15:57, Sam Steingold <s...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> > >> * Jorge Cimentada <pvzragn...@tznvy.pbz> [2017-11-09 00:02:53 > +0100]: > >> > >> I'm happy to announce the release of ess 0.0.1 a package designed to > >> download data from the European Social Survey > >> > >> > >> Given the existence of ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics - > >> https://ess.r-project.org/) the package name "ess" seems > unfortunate. > >> > >> > >> Agreed. I would suggest to rename the package to avoid conflicts > (ESS > >> includes some R code, And I wouldn’t wonder if they would like to > include > >> it in a package?). > > As a matter of fact, we (the ESS core developers) have e-chatted > about this and came to the conclusion that we could get along fine with > an unrelated R package called 'ess', notably as the acronym also > makes sense for the European Social Survey. > > We'd like to ask the 'ess' package authors to add something like the > following to their ess/DESCRIPTION file: > > This package ess is named to match the European Social Survey (ESS). > It is unrelated to the Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) project, an > emacs-based Integrated Development Environment hosted at > https://ess.r-project.org > > and last but not least we have thought of 'reserving' ESSR as > the name of a CRAN package that we'd consider using for the R > part of ESS (there are others, considerably less used, notably > Julia, Stata and SAS). > > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > for ESS core developers > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
