I had exposure to CPAN and CTAN before learning R, and then there is MRAN...
but with no in-person mentors influencing me I decided not to pronounce the C
separately in CRAN. The "CRANberries" website indicates that I am not alone.
On May 4, 2022 7:38:13 AM PDT, Kevin Thorpe <kevin.tho...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>Interesting.
>
>I have always pronounced it as See-ran. This probably stems from my exposure
>to other archive like CPAN (perl) and CTAN (TeX) that I have been exposed to.
>Obviously the latter two acronyms are unpronounceable as words so I
>generalized the approach to CRAN.
>
>Kevin
>
>
>> On May 4, 2022, at 7:20 AM, Roland Rau via R-help <r-help@r-project.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I talked with colleagues this morning and we realized that some people (=me)
>> pronounce CRAN like the German word "Kran" (probably pronounced like "cruhn"
>> in English -- if it was a word).
>> My colleague pronounced it as "Sea-Ran" or "Sea-Run". The colleague was a
>> student and has worked at the same institution as an R Core Developer and
>> heard it from him personally.
>>
>> So now I am puzzled. Have I been wrong about 43% of my life? ;-)
>>
>> Honestly: Is there a unique way how the core developers prounounce CRAN?
>>
>> Not an urgent question at all but maybe interesting to many of us.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roland
>>
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