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An R package to assist people answering R questions on Stack Overflow
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Functions are cumbersome to type #18

Closed sebastian-c closed 11 years ago

sebastian-c commented 11 years ago

At the moment, I'm finding I'm making a few typos with these function due to the switch between uppercase and lowercase letters.

I think the core idea of this package is that the function are convenient, that is to say they're not going to be used in programming, but on the fly, so they should be as quick and easy to use as possible.

In light of this, I'm proposing the following changes:

Finally, I'm proposing changing the package name from oveRflow to overflow just to make it easy to use. I think making these changes early is the best time for them to be made.

mrdwab commented 11 years ago

You don't want to go the underscore route? :)

I agree though. My original version of readSO was named read.so, which I still find easier to type, and I almost always have to delete and retype the capital R in oveRflow because of muscle memory.

:+1:

sebastian-c commented 11 years ago

I do have the one install packages (tmp_install_packages) function with underscores. I had a dearth of imagination that day and could not think of a sensible way to abbreviate it. If you or @juba can think of one, now would be a great time to rename some functions.

The only reason I use underscores is so there's no confusion with S3 methods. I do see now that full stops are more convenient than underscores for typing (no need to use shift).

sebastian-c commented 11 years ago

Fixed in 2de878d3ce8becb5de1221dfbf4f7afa7ecbb4f4. All user visible functions are prefixed with 'so' and the package has been renamed to 'overflow'.