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Regards - Sue Turner Senior Account Manager XLSolutions Corporation North American Division 1700 7th Ave Suite 2100 Seattle, WA 98101 Phone: 206-686-1578 Email: s...@xlsolutions-corp.com web: www.xlsolutions-corp.com --- On Sat, 3/7/09, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com> wrote: > From: Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com> > Subject: Re: [R] popular R packages > To: "Wacek Kusnierczyk" <waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org, "Jeroen Ooms" <j.c.l.o...@uu.nl>, "Thomas Adams" > <thomas.ad...@noaa.gov> > Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 5:22 PM > I just did RSiteSearch("library(xxx)") with xxx = > the names of 6 packages familiar to me, with the following > numbers of hits: > > hits package > > 169 lme4 > 165 nlme > 6 fda > 4 maps > 2 FinTS > 2 DierckxSpline > > Software could be written to (1) extract the names of > current packages from CRAN then (2) perform queries similar > to this on all such packages and summarize the results. I > don't have the time now to write code for this, but > I've written similar code before for step (1); it can > be found in "scripts/TsayFiles.R" in the > "FinTS" package on CRAN. For step (2), Sundar > Dorai-Raj wrote code that is is included in the preliminary > "RSiteSearch" package available from R-Forge via > install.'packages("RSiteSearch",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")'. > > Code to do this could probably be written (a) in a > matter of seconds by many of those in the R Core team or (b) > in a matter of hours by virtually any reader of this list > using the examples I just cited. And it could provide > numbers without a need to convince others to keep download > statistics and make them available later. > Hope this helps. Spencer Graves > Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: > > i have kept r installed on more than ten computers > during the past few > > years, some of them running win + more than one linux > distro, all of > > them having r, most often installed from a separate > download. > > > > i know of many cases where students download r for the > purpose of a > > course in statistics -- often an introductory course > for students who > > otherwise have little to do with stats. some of them > do it more than > > once during the semester, and many of them never use r > again. > > > > taking into account that basic statistics courses are > taught to most > > university students and that r is surely the most > popular free > > statistical computing environment, download-based > usage estimates may be > > a bit optimistic, unless 'usage' is taken to > include 'learn-pass-forget'. > > > > vQ > > > > > > > > Tal Galili wrote: > > > >> 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 cases… > >>> > >>> Tom > >>> > >>> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.