Marketing names for functions

[GreatEmerald]

Come up with easier-to-understand names of the existing functions for users (suggested by Andrei). Needs some creative thinking. Of course, the old names should become aliases in that case.

[mirt001]

Preferably function names are descriptive verbs.
We haven't decided yet on whether we want to use a namespace or not. So please also come up with namespace suggestions.
Probably bfast is a good namespace.
I would also propose to use _ (underscores) as namespace separators, but otherwise we should use camelCase.

[mirt001]

No comments for a month, this means my last proposal is accepted.

• bfast will be the namespace.
• underscore will be the namespace separator.
• e.g. package::namespace_functionName
• e.g. bfast::bfast_0n

The example is a living proof that we still need to find good function names, and for that we need a full list of all bfast functions.

[GreatEmerald]

An idea is to call bfast0n() bfast_light().

How do you call bfast::bfast() then, if bfast is also the namespace?

[mirt001]

I guess bfast::bfast_bfast is not a good idea. But that's only because bfast in itself is not a great name for a function. A good name for a function should be

• descriptive
• an action/verb
• if not an existing verb, then at least something that can be pronounced as a verb

Nobody ever said that they bfasted the Amazon forest, although many may have actually done it.
Probably bfast itself should be changed to something like bfast::bfast_detect_change().

Bellow there's a list with all functions found in the R bfast package. Please make suggestions.

bfastmonitor.hist.roc
bfastmonitor.olscusum
bfastmonitor.RE
bfastmonitor.ME
bfastmonitor.hist.bp
bfastmonitor.hist.all
bfastmonitor.modis
xbfastmonitor
bfastmonitor.modis.all
bfastmonitor.modis.all.irregular
bfast.reccusum
bfast.olscusum
bfast.dummy
bfast.olsmosum
bfast.recmosum
bfast01.test01
bfast01.test02
bfast01.test03
buildProfileGraph
test.recresid
test.interceptonly
test.model1
test.dummy1
test.poor1
bfast
bfast01
improvement01
breakpoints.bfast01
breakdates.bfast01
logLik.bfast01
deviance.bfast01
model.frame.bfast01
model.matrix.bfast01
nobs.bfast01
AIC.bfast01
BIC.bfast01
coef.bfast01
fitted.bfast01
residuals.bfast01
predict.bfast01
as.zoo.bfast01
plot.bfast01
.breaks01
.make_confint_lines01
.confint01
myfun
myprod
bfast01classify
classlabels.bfast01
bfastmonitor
.bfastmonitor.matrix
time2num
.bfastmonitor.default
stl_adjust
nalag
bfastts
yday365
.bfastts.new
.bfast_construct_ts
ndays
create16dayts
history_break
history_break.matrix
history_roc
history_roc.matrix
history_roc.formula
plot.bfast
plot.bfastmonitor
print.bfast
print.bfastmonitor
.bfast_cpp_closestfrom
seasonal
.onLoad
set_fast_options
set_default_options

[mirt001]

this has been partially fixed. I also filtered the above list with the relevant functions for brevity.

bfastmonitor
xbfastmonitor
bfast
bfast01
buildProfileGraph
bfast0n -> bfastlite
improvement01
myfun
myprod
bfast01classify
bfastmonitor
time2num
stl_adjust
nalag
bfastts
yday365
ndays
create16dayts -> deprecated
history_break
history_roc
set_fast_options -> became set_default_options
set_default_options -> set_fallback_options