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worcs or WORCS?

Open brandmaier opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

The package is currently referred to as worcs (all lowercase as it is common with R packages). In the manuscript title, the approach is referred to as WORCS (all uppercase). Is this difference intended?

brandmaier avatar May 12 '20 18:05 brandmaier

Yes, the name is an acronym, and as such, should be in upper case. The package name is in lower case, which is the convention (https://alexandereckert.com/post/r-package-names/r-package-names/), I believe because before you install a package, you don't know which letters are capitalized. This distinction also helps clarify when we're talking about the workflow vs the software.

cjvanlissa avatar May 12 '20 18:05 cjvanlissa

Maybe to make this distinction more pronounced format the package as code, so it is WORCS (the approach) vs worcs (the package)?

aaronpeikert avatar May 13 '20 11:05 aaronpeikert

Yes, in the package I've tried to do that. The paper doens't really mention the package much yet, so I will check

cjvanlissa avatar May 13 '20 11:05 cjvanlissa