>From a blurb I wrote recently: Publishing on R has accelerated over the last few years. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press publish over 50 books on R and has recently issued a call for new submissions. Springer has a growing series called "Use R!" (38 volumes). Wiley has a series called "Statistics Using R" (28 volumes).
---------------------------------------------- David L Carlson Associate Professor of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4352 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Travis Perry > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 3:14 PM > To: Douglas Bates > Cc: r-help > Subject: Re: [R] prevalence of R in publications and institutions > > Thank you both for your time and assistance. > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Douglas Bates <ba...@stat.wisc.edu> > wrote: > > > ** ** > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Travis Perry > <travis.pe...@furman.edu> > > wrote: > > > Dr. Bates, > > > Our department is considering replacing existing > statistical > > > software packages in our curriculum with R, at my request. To > better > > inform > > > this decision we are interested to know the prevalence of R in the > > published > > > literature and its use across academic and research institutions. > I > > have so > > > far been unable to find satisfactory information on the subject. > Any > > > information you could provide would be much appreciated. > > > > > > Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. > > > > > > best, > > > > > > -- > > > Travis Perry > > > Associate Professor of Biology > > > Department of Biology > > > Furman University > > > 3300 Poinsett Highway > > > Greenville, SC 29613 > > > > > > Senior Research Associate > > > Rhodes University > > > Grahamstown, South Africa > > > Cell (864)-561-4240 > > > > > > > Because R is an Open Source system which is freely distributed and > may > > be freely redistributed there is no way of keeping track of the > > downloads and its use in academic and research institutions. > > > > Searching for "R statistics" at a book site such as amazon.com or > > barnesandnoble.com should produce enough hits to convince your > > colleagues of an active development community. > > > > On scholar.google.com the system itself has been cited 3782 times and > > the initial paper on the system by Ihaka and Gentleman has been cited > > over 6000 times. > > > > Others on the R-help list may be able to give more information > > regarding the use of R in the biological sciences. > > > > > > > -- > Travis Perry > Associate Professor of Biology > Department of Biology > Furman University > 3300 Poinsett Highway > Greenville, SC 29613 > > Senior Research Associate > Rhodes University > Grahamstown, South Africa > Cell (864)-561-4240 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
