I agree with Thomas, over the years I have installed R on at least 5 computers.
BTW: does any one knows how the website statistics of r-project are being analyzed? Since I can't see any "google analytics" or other tracking code in the main website, I am guessing someone might be running some log-file analyzer - but I'd rather hear that then assume. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Thomas Adams <thomas.ad...@noaa.gov> wrote: > I don't think "At least one of the participants in the 2004 thread > suggested that it would be a "good thing" to track the numbers of downloads > by package." is reasonable because I download R packages for 2 home > computers (laptop & desktop) and 2 at work (1 Linux & 1 Mac). There must be > many such casesÂ… > > Tom > > David Winsemius wrote: > >> When the question arises "How many R-users there are?", the consensus >> seems to be that there is no valid method to address the question. The >> thread "R-business case" from 2004 can be found here: >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-March/047606.html >> >> I did not see any material revision to that conclusion during the recent >> discussion of the New York Times article on the r-challenge to SAS. >> >> Gmane tracks the number of r-help activity (I realize not what you asked >> for): >> http://www.gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.r.general >> >> The distribution of r-packages is, well ... distributed: >> http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html >> >> At least one of the participants in the 2004 thread suggested that it >> would be a "good thing" to track the numbers of downloads by package. I have >> not heard of any such system being installed in the mirror software and I >> see nothing that suggests data gathering in the CRAN Mirror How-to: >> http://cran.r-project.org/mirror-howto.html >> >> On the other hand I am not part of R-core, so you must await more >> authoritative opinion since a 5 year-old thread and amateur speculation is >> not much of a leg to stand on. >> >> There are lexicographic packages for R. One approach to a de novo analysis >> would be to do some sort of natural language analysis of the r-help archives >> counting up either package names with non-English names or close proximity >> of the words "library" or "package" to package names that overlap the 30,000 >> common English words. That would have the danger of inflating counts of the >> packages with the least adequate documentation or a paucity of good worked >> examples, but there are many readers of this list who suspect that new users >> don't look at the documentation, so who knows? >> >> > > -- > Thomas E Adams > National Weather Service > Ohio River Forecast Center > 1901 South State Route 134 > Wilmington, OH 45177 > > EMAIL: thomas.ad...@noaa.gov > > VOICE: 937-383-0528 > FAX: 937-383-0033 > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- ---------------------------------------------- My contact information: Tal Galili Phone number: 972-50-3373767 FaceBook: Tal Galili My Blogs: www.talgalili.com www.biostatistics.co.il [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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