On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) <muenc...@utk.edu> wrote: > come up with so far at http://r4stats.com/popularity . I'm sure people > will have plenty of ideas on how to improve this, so please let me know > what you think. > This is not much of a metric, probably not even a ballpark, but I have a habit of measuring the popularity of a software by the number of unread messages in my mail account, sent to one of its main mailing lists. For example, I subscribed to Gentoo, Xfce and LyX MLs much earlier than to that of R, but R quickly and surpassed all in number of unread messages. At the moment I have the following: R ( 37k), LyX (10k), Debian (7k), Xfce (<3k), Geany (.5k). I dare say that R might be more popular than Debian, but again, any such estimation seems farfetched.
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