Here’s a daft idea that brings it back to R For packages where there are problematic names, have aliases with acceptable names.
Perhaps create a package to hold all those aliases. Then if a user wants their preferred names, load up the aliasing package and change them in bulk. Using a package means everyone has access to a standardized set of alternative terms. Just a thought. Coffee may not have kicked in yet. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:36 AM Charles Novaes de Santana < charles.sant...@gmail.com> wrote: > The fact that for the first time we have so many messages in this group is > proof that the question asked by Lainey is appropriate and necessary. > > No language is static, they evolve thanks to discussions like this. > Remember that github stopped using the term "master" to describe the main > branch of a repository for example. > > I wonder what would happen if there was a color named "redneck" instead of > "indianred". > > Charles > > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 at 10:37, Marc Roos <m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > > > > > >name since it conveys the wrong indication of its purpose. But the > > >word 'racist' in itself is not offensive. The act of being racist is > > >offensive and wrong. Purging the word 'racist' won't help rid the > > >world of racism. > > > > Indeed, if you would go down this road, where does it stop? You would be > > eligible getting discussions why the female species is described with a > > longer word than the male. Why is there even a 'man' part in 'woman'. I > > can bet there are man and woman finding this offensive!!!! ;) > > What do you think about these symbols for male and female? Should be > > changed also, this male is now pointing up to heaven = good, and female > > pointing down to hell = bad? ;) > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > -- > Um axé! :) > > -- > Charles Novaes de Santana, PhD > https://github.com/cndesantana > > [[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. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[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.
