<p>R is great, but the name is terrible and invites many problems on scale much larger than the one you highlight here.</p>

<p>It lacks searchability in general and possibly memorability for would-be users.</p>

<p>Those <em>and</em> the smaller problem you highlight could be fixed by moving to a different name (I nominate "R-Statistics" or "R-Stats"), but of course that would be a much larger effort than a tag change here!</p>

<p>I don't know that it is up to StackExchange to try to deal with what is a bad name to begin with.  Of course, excepting <code>r</code> from the no-capitals rule on the basis of it being a single letter seems reasonable if it is easy to do.</p>
