Bug#690544: ITP: xts -- GNU R package for time series analysis

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

2012/10/15 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 20:13:33 +0800, Lifeng Sun wrote:
>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
>> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-science@lists.debian.org
>>
>> * Package name    : xts
>>   Version         : 0.8-6
>>   Upstream Author : Jeffrey A. Ryan <jeff.a.ryan@gmail.com>
>>                     Josh M. Ulrich
>> * URL             : http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/xts/
>> * License         : GPL-2
>>   Description     : GNU R package for time series analysis -- xts
>>
>> This package provide uniform handling of R's different time-based data
>> classes by extending r-cran-zoo, maximizing native format information
>> preservation and allowing for user level customization and extension,
>> while simplifying cross-class interoperability.
>>
> Any chance you could choose a better package name?  Something that hints
> at this being related to R.  xts to me is the X Test Suite, which has
> nothing to do with this.
>
> Thanks,
> Julien

Hi,

r-cran-xts would fit existing naming scheme nicely.
The same scheme could be used for performanceanalytics as well.

Cheers,
Balint