[Rd] R Usage Statistics

[Charles C. Berry]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Kevin R. Coombes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got the following comment from the reviewer of a paper (describing an 
> algorithm implemented in R) that I submitted to BMC Bioinformatics:
>
> "Finally, which useful for exploratory work and some prototyping, neither R 
> nor S-Plus are appropriate environments for deploying user applications that 
> would receive much use."

The reviewer needs to get out more...


"Intel Capital has placed the number of R users at 1 million, and 
Revolution kicks the estimate all the way up to 2 million."

from the New York Times Business Innovation Technology Blog

 	http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/

which follows up on this article

 	http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html

in their printed paper. Did the reviewer notice where that article said:

"Companies as diverse as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America, the 
InterContinental Hotels Group and Shell use it."

???

<sarcasm>
Yeah, Google and those other companies just don't have much ken 
for  muscular computing. ;-)
</sarcasm>

<more sarcasm>
Maybe you should retool in Visual Basic.
</more sarcasm>

HTH,

Chuck


>
> I can certainly respond by pointing out that CRAN contains more than 2000 
> packages and Bioconductor contains more than 350. However, does anyone have 
> statistics on how often R (and possibly some R packages) are downloaded, or 
> on how many people actually use R?
>
> Thanks,
>    Kevin
>
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