Section name lab_name: Name is confusing

[discoleo]

Section: lab_name

The name of this section can be confusing: clinical trials can involve labs. Some R functions may contain the argument "lab", but it is not associated with "name".

Solution

Name could be changed to "label_name" or "lbl_name" or "name.lbl":

• the "label" keyword is already used for some functions;
• "lbl" is shorter, while less likely to be confused;
• name.lbl or names.lbl: can benefit from the tools available for generic functions in R;

Note:

• generic functions can be easily searched in R using the methods function:

names.lbl = function(x) print(x); # just some test
methods(names)
# [1] names.lbl names.POSIXlt

[Melkiades]

@gmbecker do you think we can change this w/o affecting the API too much? I am not sure of this. It could be a candidate for an alias eventually