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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ropensci

Package for naming packages

Open jimhester opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

Briefly started at https://github.com/jimhester/available, but might be a good thing to work on at the unconf.

Basically it would check if the package name is already taken on CRAN / Bioconductor / Omegahat or a previously archived package. Also potentially do other things like search the name on Urban Dictionary, Foreign Dictionaries, Common Acronyms, and public GitHub package names.

jimhester avatar Apr 28 '17 18:04 jimhester

This would definitely be useful! Maybe even do a Google search to see what else would come up when someone is trying to find help for said package ....

rmflight avatar Apr 28 '17 19:04 rmflight

It would be awesome if it had a function to propose valid, concise package names given some keywords, but maybe that's not a realistic possibility....

cboettig avatar Apr 28 '17 19:04 cboettig

There are three of us working on this package (@mllewis, @jimhester & me). We're by the Southwest windows.

rctatman avatar May 25 '17 17:05 rctatman

  • [x] Search packages on GitHub http://rpkg.gepuro.net/download, This also has R-forge due to Jeroen's R-forge mirror.
  • [ ] Search abbreviations - https://github.com/jimhester/available/issues/3
  • [ ] Regular dictionaries - https://www.programmableweb.com/category/dictionary/api
  • [x] Urban Dictionary - https://cran.r-project.org/package=udapi
  • [x] Wiktionary search
  • [ ] Name generator based on keywords
  • [x] Sentiment

jimhester avatar May 25 '17 17:05 jimhester